LA Times Examines Anti Choice Groups’ Push For ‘Personhood’ Ballot Measures
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Zikkir Health News: Abortion-rights opponents are escalating their efforts to place so-called “personhood” measures on several state ballots in 2010 as a way to end legalized abortion, the Los Angeles Times reports. Their goal is to put referendums before state voters on whether states’ constitutions should be amended to declare that personhood and rights accorded to human beings begin at conception.
According to the Times, personhood-amendment advocates believe that legally establishing personhood from conception would undo legalized abortion under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, in which the court declared that a fetus is not legally a person. Advocates of the personhood amendments are gathering signatures, raising funds and pressuring state legislatures to support the measures in California, Florida, Louisiana and other states.
Keith Mason, co-founder of Personhood USA, said the group has “big and small efforts” under way in 30 states, adding, “Our goal is to activate the population.” Mason said, “This is an uphill battle. Even though we may not have the votes or the political equity, we have to start somewhere.”
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