Politics should be focus of personhood coverage

by: Jason Salzman

Mon Nov 21, 2011 at 13:53:14 PM MST

So journalists covering the announcement today by personhood backers that they are petitioning  to put the measure on the ballot shouldn't get bogged down in the old questions of which forms of the Pill this amendment would ban. It's well-known to Coloradans that common forms of birth control would be banned.

The focus for reporters should be the politics of having a personhood measure on the ballot in 2012, in a swing state like Colorado.

So I attended today's news conference announcing the personhood petition drive to make sure these issues were raised by reporters, and since they were not, I filled in the journalistic gap.

I asked Kristi Brown, who's changed her name from Kristi Burton since she sponsored the first personhood amendment with her father in 2008, if she expected to get the same support from major candidates that her measure had gotten previously.

Romney once supported Personhood, then flipped, and then possibly flipped again

by: Jason Salzman

Fri Nov 18, 2011 at 06:27:14 AM MST

But no media outlet that I could find reported that four years ago Romney said he supported the federal equivalent of the Mississippi personhood measure.

The federal version would expand the definition of a "person" under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to include the unborn.

On August 6, 2007, Romney was asked on ABC's "Good Morning America" about the following plank of the Republican platform, which, incidentally, remains in the national GOP platform to this day:

"We support a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution, and we endorse legislation to make it clear that the 14th Amendment's protections apply to unborn children."

"You know, I do support the Republican platform, and I support that being part of the Republican platform, and I'm pro-life," Romney told ABC.

On radio, CO Right to Life leader vows 2012 effort to pass CO Personhood, despite Miss loss

by: Jason Salzman

Fri Nov 11, 2011 at 10:30:22 AM MST

Hanks sounded mildly disappointed with Mississippi's rejection Tues. of a Personhood measure by a 58-to-42-percent margin, but she told Swanson that the Personhood movement is "moving in the right direction," gaining 27% in CO in 2008, 30% 2010, and 42% in Mississippi this week.

Hanks invited Swanson's listeners to a "March for Life" Jan. 21 at noon on the west steps of the CO Capitol, where the third attempt to pass a Personhood Amendment in Colorado will be officially launched and petitions for gathering signatures to put the measure on the ballot will be available. Mike Adams of conservative Townhall.com and others will speak, Hanks to Swanson, at the "Round Three Personhood Colorado" event.

She told Swanson that Personhood activists in Florida are gathering signitures now, as are supporters in Ohio and Montana. Coloradoans were the first in the country to vote on a Personhood amendment in 2008.

Colorado Personhood Activist (and Radio Host) Doesn't Trust Romney's New Support for Personhood

by: Jason Salzman

Tue Nov 08, 2011 at 12:41:18 PM MST

Enyart has also been a tireless supporter of Colorado's "personhood amendments," which would have codified Enyart's belief that life begins at conception.

So, now that Romney is on the record saying he "absolutely" believes, like Enyart, that life begins at conception (and Romney would sign a Constitutional Amendment to make it law) has Enyart's view of Romney changed?

"Romney needs the Republican base and so he is happy to lie to them for their votes," Enyart emailed me. "But of course, slavery ended here and elsewhere in the world even though many who eventually supported emancipation in reality hated the slaves themselves. Similarly with child killing, the goal is to make open support of abortion unthinkable, regardless of the hardness of one's heart."

Fighting Words 2: Corporate Personhood & Limited Liability

by: Bill Simpson

Fri Oct 28, 2011 at 11:16:04 AM MST

    Once there was a London shoemaker named Aron Salomon. He had a large family and a prosperous business. He had built-up his business over the course of 30 years having started with very little. His biggest customer was the British Army which bought boots, lots of boots. Aron Salomon wanted to retire, and his children who worked in the shoe factory wanted to be more than mere employees. So in the fall of 1892 Aron Salomon decided to incorporate.

That's when things started to go wrong.

Eggmendment 2010 Gets Enough Signatures

by: Fong

Thu Mar 18, 2010 at 13:44:32 PM MST

I just received word that Personhood Colorado, the proponents of the "eggmendment" measure to give due process and property rights to fertilized eggs has acquired 46,671 signatures to get back on the ballot. After petitions were thrown out by the Secretary of State for having unacceptable notarizations, the organization was allowed a few more weeks to collect 15,000 more signatures to cure the discrepancies resulting from the tossed petitions.

The previous measure, Amendment 48, was defeated in 2008 76-24% and was touted by opponents as "simply goes too far."