Pro-Life Group Pushes for Constitutional Amendment
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Jacksonville Observer: Pro-Life advocates on Friday will start a new push in Florida by introducing a proposed constitutional amendment that says life starts when biological development begins. At a public event planned for the state Capitol, a group calling itself “Personhood Florida” will submit the proposed amendment to the Division of Elections, the first step in its quest to begin collecting petitions to put the issue before voters as early as 2010. The ballot language reads: “The words “person” and “natural person” apply to all human beings, irrespective of age, race, health, function, condition of physical and/or mental dependency and/or disability, or method of reproduction, from the beginning of the biological development of that human being. “This amendment shall take effect on the first day of the next regular legislative session occurring after voter approval of this amendment.” The Florida event is part of a series of similar activities in at least 25 states organized by American Life League, a Stafford, Va.-based group that supports stricter abortion laws across the country.
“Each state has different procedures, so we working with local groups to coordinate the efforts,” said Katie Walker, spokeswoman for the American Life League. The group, which describes itself as the “largest grassroots, Catholic-based pro-life” organization in the country is helping state groups organize. “The real push will come from local groups within the state,” Walker said. Last year, abortion foes in Colorado tried to pass a measure that would have defined a fertilized human egg as a person, but it failed at the ballot box. This year in Colorado, like in Florida, backers are instead pushing a proposal that refers to “the beginning of the biological development of that human being.”
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