It’s official. I dropped off our ballots this morning. We voted and it felt good.
The Colorado State ballot has an amendment that CAN NOT PASS. Amendment 48 is a scary attempt to define “personhood” from the moment of conception. All rights, therefore, would be afforded to this person from that moment. It begs several questions:
First: Do women who find out they are pregnant and then have a natural miscarriage undergo investigations for murder?? How do we expect to pay for this dramatic increase in homocide investigations nationwide?? Are our courts, district attorneys, police detectives, etc. staffed for this?
Second: Do women need to apply for TWO passports if traveling out of the country while pregnant??
Third: If ”inalienable rights, equality of justice, and due process of law” apply to the human “person” from the moment of conception, is the legality of birth obsolete?? If so, shall we create “Conception Certificates” rather than “Birth Certificates”?? Who will pay to update the computer systems? Must a woman apply for a “Conception Certificate” when she purchases a pregnancy test? Or will her physician be required to notify the government when her urine sample comes back positive for increased hormone levels??
OH, wait … my third point wouldn’t necessarily apply to a gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered conceived “person”. Our GLBT neighbors aren’t afforded equal inalienable rights as living, breathing, working, tax-paying adults! My mistake, my mistake.
