HLA

Thank you, Kathryn Jean Lopez!  At least somebody's paying attention to the fact that recent Human Life Amendment initiatives are going nowhere fast.

And items like this do seem to be turning out rather quickly.  The Colorado Supreme Court recently allowed the language of a ballot initiative there that could put to a referendum vote whether their state constitution should be amended to recognize fertilized human embryos as persons.  It's a beautiful sentiment.  It truly is, because they are human persons.  But considering the fact that it will end up doing nothing means that it's only a sentiment.  I guess that kind of sentimentality would at least be in time for Christmas.

Oh, I guess it wouldn't do nothing.  Let's see, they need to collect a little over 76,000 signatures in a state with a population of 4,753,500 (which also the mega church capitol of the country, so they can probably get the signatures without too much trouble).  That means they're looking for a little more than 1.5% of the population to sign on and bring it to a vote where it will likely fail.  Even if it didn't, it would be struck down by the US Supreme Court.  So I guess it would set a pretty nasty precedent in the Supreme Court for how to decide on the personhood of the unborn.

Well, even if they ruin the chances for ultimately protecting the lives of the unborn, they can always pretend that these personhood petitions and votes were some sort of moral victory and fund raise off of it.  I can hear it now: "This past year, millions of Americans came together to defend the humanity of the unborn...send help/contribute/donate now!"  Talk about blood money.