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OCTOBER 28, 2009 7:48AM

“Egg-as-a-Person” Initiative on the 2010 Ballot in Colorado

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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File under: You can’t make this stuff up!

A new version of an anti-abortion initiative defeated by the voters in 2008 is making its way to the 2010 ballot, this time reworked to define an “egg-as-a-person.”

This new initiative would move the legal definition of a person further back into the reproductive cycle, granting cells the full spectrum of citizen rights.

Opposition groups, including Colorado genetic and fertilization researchers, say the law would have spiraling consequences, that it would put women at risk and freeze current work in medicine and reproduction.

Omelette anyone?

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Well that's a great idea. Then every time a woman ovulates she can be arrested for child abandonment.
mr e
October 28, 2009 09:41 AM
This again? Next thing you know they'll be singing "every sperm is sacred."

In all reality, if this bill passes, you can say goodbye to any kind of contraception, since you're violating the egg's "right to live." Need to get your ovaries removed for some reason? Hey - if God wanted you to life without suffering, I guess Eve shouldn't have eaten the Forbidden Fruit, right?

Seriously, it's such a crock, and I hope the citizens of Colorado reject this Family based "Jesus plus Nothing" intellectually bankrupt reasoning while they have the chance.
John Hummel
October 28, 2009 09:50 AM
I guess every time a woman has "her monthly visitor" the medical examiner is going to have to file a report. Talk about red tape, sick humor intentional.
ocularnervosa
October 28, 2009 10:26 AM
Are the million squiggly little sperm swimming about also people?
Janelle Tapscott
October 28, 2009 10:28 AM
So every time a woman has her period, a citizen of Colorado dies?
Malusinka
October 28, 2009 10:50 AM
Time for the Men's Rights advocates to demand equal treatment.

I mean, why grant full personhood to the woman's half of DNA and ignore men?

If an egg can be a person, so can a sperm!

And would make every gleeful session with a porn site and a tissue...mass murder.

These people are loony.
Verbal Remedy
October 28, 2009 11:15 AM
So with rights come responsibilities, will they be in the census,pay taxes, report for jury duty, can they vote? At what age will they go to school ? Will they count in the number of U.S.Representatives from each district? The questions are endless and the motivation of anyone who proposes such a lack of reality is suspect.
Liberal Southern Democrat
October 28, 2009 11:28 AM
The religious right is truly insane.
Christopher di Spirito
October 28, 2009 11:37 AM
This is their second try at this particularly hateful, anti-woman and utterly stupid attempt to move us back to the Dark Ages in Colorado. These people need lobotomies, cause you just can't fix this kind of stupid.
AshKW
October 28, 2009 12:14 PM
As seen here:
http://www.elections.colorado.gov/Content/Documents/2009%20Voter%20Registration%20Numbers/May/VotersByGender.pdf

There are currently 1,651,692 active and inactive registered female voters in Colorado. There are 1,532.633 active and inactive male voters.

Females have a deciding majority and how they vote will determine the outcome of this and any other issue.
noah tall
October 28, 2009 12:22 PM
So removal of an ovary is mass murder? Ovarian cancer is mass suicide?? I am menopausal, can I be charged with genocide??? OMG.
cave_canem
October 28, 2009 12:36 PM
UFB.

No, wait, it's terribly fn believable.

[I avert my eyes and retch.]
ConnieMack
October 28, 2009 02:56 PM
I think this is some swell legislation. As my mother said, when I explained "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny," and explained to her that there is a point in fetal development when a human embryo is indistinguishable from a frog - the dear woman said there was in fact a difference. Human embryos do not grow into frogs. One cannot argue with that.

In fact, I daresay, speaking to eggs is probably about as satisfying as speaking to most of the inhabitants of this website.
DrAmyFarteur, MD
October 28, 2009 03:25 PM
It's not enough to vote this kind of idiocy down, the groups that relentlessly launch and relaunch these initiatives have to be broken.

On a national scale, these right-wing groups need to be harassed by the media, by activists, and by endless lawsuits (no matter how frivolous). And the Democratic Party needs to put together a program to cut these groups off at the knees. Enough is enough.
Alexander Ryking
October 28, 2009 06:37 PM
OMG, I'm a serial killer and if this were applied to sperm, then Sesshy and I could be tried for crimes against humanity! (Swallowing is a capital crime now, eh?) LMAO!
LadyMiko
October 28, 2009 08:27 PM
The possibilities are endless. If a woman has a miscarriage, and it can be proven that she had a glass of wine a week earlier, that bitch goes to jail. Nice.
Roger Fallihee
October 28, 2009 08:42 PM
Insane.

For all my state's troubles, I'm glad to be in California instead!

"My eggs and I would like a couple million voter registration forms, please..."
Shiral
October 28, 2009 09:22 PM
Oh dear. Is it time for me to print another "Brush. Floss. Abort!" t-shirt? I've washed the old one so many times it's illegible.
Bryan Harrison
October 29, 2009 04:10 AM
Colorado voters successfully defeated a ballot initiative to classify a fertilized egg as a person in 2008. Even as a citizen of Colorado, I don't think there's much to worry about, as far as my unfertilized eggs go.
somethingtoconsider
November 16, 2009 10:34 AM