Anti-Choice Amendment Moves On
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KOMU: If an anti-abortion group has its way, Missourians will have the chance to cast their votes on an amendment to the Missouri Constitution in November 2010. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan's office gave the green light to Personhood Missouri to begin collecting the 147,000 signatures it will need to put their anti-abortion amendment on the ballot.
It's the second amendment seeking to protect the rights of the unborn the Secretary of State has approved this week. On Monday, Carnahan's office gave the green light to the Missouri Roundtable for Life to begin collecting signatures for its amendment banning public funding of stem-cell research, abortion, and human cloning.
Gregory Thompson of Springfield, the author of the Personhood amendment, said his initiative would amend the state's Constitution to define the term "person" as beginning at the earliest stages of biological development. "It was recognized by Justice Blackmun, when the [Roe v. Wade] decision came down, when the research wasn't as good as it was today, that once the scientists come along and say, 'that is a person,' then it will turn away the arguments of that decision," Thompson explained. Thompson added that, unlike the other proposed amendment, Personhood Missouri has no objection to stem cell research as long as it does no harm to an unborn child.
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