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Personhood on the Ballot. Again.

Published on September 3, 2010 By spyderkl

In 2008, one of the questions people in our state had to vote on was Amendment 48, which would have changed our Colorado state Constitution to define life as beginning “at the moment of conception”. Fortunately, it lost. Lost big, too – it was rejected by 73% of voters, more or less from the entire [...]

Personhood: Not dead yet

Published on November 10, 2008 By spyderkl

Apparently losing by 73% of the vote here in CO wasn’t enough to dampen the “personhood” anti-women haters. Now they feel empowered enough to go national: Organizers of Personhood USA plan to mount campaigns to put the same amendment before voters wherever citizens can initiate petitions. Even though Colorado voters rejected Amendment 48 by a [...]

Registered Yet?

Published on October 2, 2008 By spyderkl

Almost every state has their voter registration deadline sometime in the next week or so. Here in Colorado, the cutoff date is October 6. Are you registered yet? You might want to check your voter roll/record to make certain (here’s the link for the county clerk and recorder’s offices in CO). This year in particular, [...]

Even more about personhood

Published on August 28, 2008 By spyderkl

As well as something that never even occurred to me – at first… Wendy Norris is liveblogging a talk at The Big Tent today about Amendment 48. It’s really interesting stuff, if a little (well, now, maybe not just a little) scary. I know that there is the strong possibility that women (like me) who [...]

To the supporters of Amendment 48

Published on August 25, 2008 By spyderkl

Dear Colorado Voters: When you support Amendment 48, these are the type of people with whom you are aligning yourselves. Read this carefully. Consider if this is the message you want to send to your fellow Coloradans; that this type of speech is fine with you, if it produces the desired result. Then your choice [...]