Could amendment outlaw birth control?
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ABC Action News: Redefining when human life begins is the centerpiece of proposed state constitutional amendment. “No human life is discarded, no human life is unloved, no human life deserves to be put at the end of an abortion, no human life deserves to be let go," says Shaun Kenney with the American Life League. On Friday the American Life League Introduced the “Personhood Amendment" in Tallahassee. The league says the amendment will change Florida's constitution to recognize a person regardless of age, race or health. And that a person is created at the beginning of biological development of a human being, essentially defining a newly formed embryo as a person. The group has started grassroots efforts in Florida and more than a dozen states across the country to get amendments on ballots as early as 2010. "We're going to do it the Christian way. We're going to do it through volunteers. People who care about the life of babies are going to go out and gather signatures,” says Dr. Pat McEwen with Personhood Florida.
"The American Life League is a fringe group that has been behind these amendments in the past however their record hasn't been very successful,” says Adrienne Kimmell with Planned Parenthood. The league tried but failed to pass similar amendments just last year in states including Colorado. And Kimmel says although Planned Parenthood opposes the initial language of the amendment, she is also concerned with how far the final language could go, and whether it could even attempt to restrict access to birth control. "I think what we've seen in other states in the past in Colorado, and other states that I mentioned, is language that could be interpreted as banning birth control," Kimmell says. The American Life League will have to get upwards of 700,000 signatures by February 1st in order to get their amendment on November ballot.
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