by Steven Ertelt
After making headlines nationwide with curious comments in an interviewin which many observers say he indicated he believes human life begins at implantation, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has restated his pro-life views. Read more…
by Charlie Butts
The European Union’s top court has ruled that patents cannot be granted on stem-cell techniques using human embryos.
While the decision is being heralded by pro-life and religious groups, Dr. David Prentice of Family Research Council says it doesn’t ban research on embryos or embryonic stem cells, but it does take away a lot of the incentive. Read more…
by Sheila Liaugminas
Oh, the irony. We’re talking about a ‘personhood amendment.’
We’re at the point in Orwellian politics and culture at which states are taking legislative measures to define and protect basic truths. Ones we all knew until about the seventies. Read more…
by Steven W. Mosher
More than 80 percent of voters in Mississippi describe themselves as pro-life. Why then, did more than 55 percent vote against the so-called “personhood” amendment?
On November 8, the voters of what is arguably the most pro-life state in the union defeated a ballot initiative that would have declared life begins at fertilization. More than 80 percent of voters in Mississippi describe themselves as pro-life. Why then, did more than 55 percent vote against the so-called “personhood” amendment? Read more…
by Charlie Butts
In moving testimony, a rape victim has spoken out in favor of Mississippi’s proposed personhood amendment.
If approved by voters next Tuesday (Nov. 8), the constitutional amendment (Initiative 26) would ban abortion except to save the life of the mother, and it would ban cloning. The issue has spawned heated debate in the Magnolia State over recent weeks — a debate that has brought to light significant out-of-state financial backing from Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country. Read more…
by Russ Jones
The law school at the University of Mississippi played host last night to a discussion about the Personhood Amendment which will be on the state ballot next Tuesday. Proposition 26 defines human life to begin at conception. However, at last night’s forum only those who oppose the amendment were invited to speak — which upset some in attendance. Read more…
Colorado is about to implicitly acknowledge the personhood of unborn children – even after having voted down Personhood Amenments twice now – and the bill has strong bipartisan support.
Even Planned Parenthood is OK with it:
“It’s a very thoughtful solution to a complex problem,” said Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountain Spokeswoman Monica McCafferty said.
Tragically, but as per usual, the legislation was only motivated by the loss of a life: Read more…
This is cool that these states are working toward making abortion illegal and aim to create a real threat to Roe v. Wade. Let’s just hope and pray it works.
Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -
Signatures are being submitted as Mississippi voters seek the opportunity to decide on a Personhood amendment, and Colorado residents may once again have the chance to determine when a person is legally a person.
The Mississippi petition drive needed a little over 89,000 valid signatures to put the issue on the ballot, and Les Riley, head of the Personhood Mississippi campaign, reports that results in that area have surpassed requirements. Read more…
“So Patricia Blair is anguished now, trying to struggle with the aftermath of what it has meant to her family to not only suffer this much loss, but [to also] be told that their babies’ lives didn’t count, didn’t matter and Vermont has no regard for their lives.”
Wow. That’s harsh.
Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -
Pro-life forces are preparing for a court battle to decide whether voters can decide on a Personhood amendment in Missouri.
The measure would declare that a human is a person at the biological beginning of life. Personhood Missouri went through all the obstacles in order to launch a petition drive and get a slot on a future election ballot. Personhood Missouri spokesman Dr. Gregory Thompson tells OneNewsNow that a lawsuit has brought the effort to a halt. Read more…
Sheila Liaugminas, Merctornet.com
Pro-life and pro-abortion activists are splitting hairs between what it means to be a human being and a human person. The abortion movement has succeeded in gaining acceptance these past 36 years largely on the misguided assumption that the contents of a woman’s womb at and just after conception comprised a ‘blob of tissue’ or something that will develop into a human being. Or, as in the case of intellectually honest but morally challenged Princeton professor Peter Singer (who admits ‘of course you have a human being at conception and abortion takes the life of a human being’)…….the dangerous assumption that human beings aren’t persons without a certain level of cognition. And therefore, not worthy of life. Read more…
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