While ugly confrontation between reproductive-rights advocates and abortion opponents is inevitable, an internecine fight has been brewing between warring camps of absolutists that oppose abortion under any circumstances versus those who advocate for incremental change or are willing to make exceptions in certain cases.
A strange netherworld of extremes exists in today’s anti-abortion movement. Nowhere is that more evident than its latest political salvo coming to a voting booth near you in November — Colorado’s proposed Amendment 48, the so-called Human Life Amendment, a controversial mandate that seeks to confer constitutional rights to fertilized human eggs.
It’s hard to imagine a worse kickoff to a political campaign. For Republican Bob Schaffer, formerly the self-described “Conservative Colorado Congressman” who currently is touting his “Common Sense Leadership” and running in one of the most closely-watched U.S.…
It’s hard to imagine a worse kickoff to a political campaign. For Republican Bob Schaffer, formerly the self-described “Conservative Colorado Congressman” who currently is touting his “Common Sense Leadership” and running in one of the most closely-watched U.S.…
The question of when life begins is an incredibly complex one with enormous legal and ethical ramifications for contraception, abortion, in vitro fertilization, embryonic stem cell research and the very definition of our humanity.
Colorado voters will decide…
While we here in Colorado are having to battle a proposal to grant "personhood" to a fertilized egg — a concept that would classify all abortions as murder (and many contraceptives, as well!) — on the other side of the…
The first in a series of reports exploring the ramifications of this controversial state ballot measure.
Hard-line, socially conservative activists are gearing up to enact state laws to restrict abortion since President Bush and Congress have all but abandoned
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Join Colorado Confidential as we post live updates called “tweets” via the microblogging tool, Twitter.com, from the Human Life Amendment press conference at the Knights of Columbus Hall in downtown Denver.
Hard-line anti-abortion forces in Colorado say they are backing off their fiery criticism of conservative U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer for not supporting a controversial state ballot measure, according to press accounts this week. Really — or are they simply…
Proponents of the controversial “egg as a person” initiative have just one month left to submit petitions to the Colorado secretary of state to certify the measure for the Nov. 4 ballot. Now, in the frenzy of the signature-gathering push…
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