Monday, August 11, 2008

Ugh

As if the Bush League's attempt to make oral contraception and IUDs be classified as "abortion" wasn't bad enough (ignoring the fact that the touted "abortifacient" properties of HBC are not only not proven, but possibly impossible to concretely prove with a natural spontaneous miscarriage of 50% in the first few weeks of pregnancy, and the fact that breast feeding has the exact same effect that they are claiming HBC does), Colorado has a referendum on the table to make a fertilized embryo a "person" from the moment of conception.

I'm sure we are all intelligent enough to understand that this would make abortion illegal murder. But, there are further repercussions:

1. No more stem cell research. You can't do that to a person!

2. No more in-vitro fertilization. Not all of those people get implanted successfully, and the ones that don't often go to the medical incinerator since SCR is blocked in most states.

3. Every woman who miscarries could logically be investigated for things like "involuntary manslaughter."

I live in fear that Colorado Springs is going to make it pass, giving the religious right a way to push a new case to the SCOTUS to reanalyze the legality of abortion and the sticky problems of personhood. With who is currently serving, this is a very bad thing.

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