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Huckabee ‘Eggs’ On Social Conservatives in Colorado

By | 02.26.08 | 1:29 pm

COMMENTARY
GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee endorsed Colorado’s “egg as a person” state ballot measure on Monday, but for whose benefit — Zygote Americans or his own dwindling political fortunes?

Anti-Abortion Ballot Measure Draws Foes, Advocates Inside Conservative Circles

By | 01.22.08 | 10:06 am

The 35-year battle to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision is once again firmly planted in women’s wombs. This time, instead of directing their wrath at women’s clinics, abortion foes are targeting a much different constituency

“Egg As Person” Is Red Meat With Few Calories

By | 11.14.07 | 8:22 pm

The ballot initiative defining a fertilized egg as a person for purposes of certain provisions of the Colorado Constitution that the Colorado Supreme Court cleared to circulate petitions for on Tuesday will probably energize pro-choice activists and abortion foes

Colorado Supreme Court Affirms “Egg as a Person” Ballot Wording

By | 11.13.07 | 5:51 pm

In a terse 7-0 decision [PDF] today the Colorado Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the state Title Board’s approval of a 2008 proposed ballot measure to bestow constitutional rights on fertilized human eggs.

Scrambling the ‘Egg-as-Person’ Ballot Measure

By | 08.09.07 | 8:00 am

A veritable who’s who of reproductive health champions filed a legal challenge with the Colorado Supreme Court late yesterday to stem a proposed ballot measure that would advance anti-abortion law and limit access to some contraception methods.

Anti-Abortion Measures Inches Closer to Ballot

By | 06.20.07 | 1:28 pm

Abortion opponents are a step closer to putting a constitutional amendment on the ballot in Colorado. As the Rocky Mountain News reports:

An anti-abortion group has filed paperwork with the state of Colorado proposing a state constitutional