Wouldn't your age count from the time of fertilization then, rather than time of birth? Doesn't seem reasonable that your age would reflect a shorter period of time than you've been a person. So will they change the driving, drinking, voting, etc ages, or start issuing fertilization certificates instead of birth (or in addition to) certificates?

Re: gay embryos, I imagine anyone who signed onto this who is through-and-through social conservatives doesn't consider a gay embryo possible since in their minds, it is a choice.

The implications of this bill make me shudder.

argh! What JP said. Beat me to it :)

Ugh...except I really should have previewed my post! Let me try that sentence again:

"Re: gay embryos, I imagine anyone who signed onto this who is a through-and-through social conservative doesn't consider a gay embryo possible since in their minds, it is a choice."

Good call, DaveD. It makes me wanna go to Colorado and buy some 20-years-and-3-months-old kids a beer.

So the 80% of embryos that don't implant into the wall of the uterus in the course of natural procreation, do the parents get charged with negligent manslaughter for allowing those "people" to die?

Don't these idiots realize that by their stunningly ignorant metric, any woman who has had a child is likely to also be a mass murderer?

Does this mean that if one twin "devours" another in-utero, it is murder and can be tried as an adult?

We could also wonder when the fertilized eggs that will become females, whether gay, straight or bi, will lose their rights. Will it be just after birth and will they then be labeled as baby factories unable to control their own destinies?
I'm live in Colorado and one day I saw one of the (male) petitioners standing in front of a chain grocery store soliciting signatures for this nonsense. My partner wouldn't let me run over him but I did call the store manager to ask if I could bring my petition and obtain signatures right beside this nut. She asked what my petition was and I told her. She gasped, then she laughed (women laugh, men recoil). I have been using this line since the '80s, "Mandatory Vasectomies done with a coat hanger in the back alley". The burden would then finally shift to the other half of the population and would really stop abortions given that birth control medication and devices are in such short supply; )

Even though I live in New Jersey, I find that such a state constitutional amendment is worrisome to me--and I'm pro-life. I can see how an amendment like this could backfire, causing far more liability than benefit. It would be far better for those people to petition for equal rights for the poor, the uninsured, the undereducated, and others who have received the political finger from the Bush administration. Let's get the science in place first, then go from there with who's a person and who isn't.

Swarm Hypocrites do anything to try to create a viable plurality to continue their cult. We are getting them out of places like Colorado now, because it is their cult to demean Christians.

The Swarm are so afraid of sanity that they cannot bring charges against the wife who, in front of a deputy, killed James Tatum who took my money, though he was too uninformed to represent my case against Colorado.

I look down on the town of faithless faithkeepers, and they want me to kill their Swarm town.

Is there a better faithkeeper to part retrograde?

I don't see you in front of my face in this town.

The Left used to champion the powerless and voiceless.

Apparently, that's not a rule for the unborn, for the incapacitated and for the very elderly. Just kill them when they are inconvenient! Its certainly a progressive position to take. All human life deserves to be protected under natural law. Even if some find its existence gets in the way of whatever they would like to do.

The Colorado Personhood Amendment reminds us that the principle of the sanctity of human life should be beyond debate, since without a fundamental guarantee of the right to life, its not possible to exercise the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

That's the question Colorado voters will be asked to decide in November. Does that principle merit affirmation in the state's highest law? Its more than just about abortion but about the value of a human life, since the law is the ultimate teacher of society's values.