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Origins of Personhood: Using ‘States Rights’ to Restrict Abortion

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...

Tweeting the ‘Egg as a Person’ Petition Press Conference

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...

War of Eggs and Politics Goes Underground for Schaffer, Abortion Foes

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...

Antiabortion Ballot Proponents Call Out Conservative Wimps

Proponents of the controversial "egg as a person" initiative have just one month left to submit petitions to the Colorado secretary of state to...

Huckabee ‘Eggs’ On Social Conservatives in Colorado

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...

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

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...

“Egg As Person” Is Red Meat With Few Calories

The ballot initiative defining a fertilized egg as a person for purposes of certain provisions of the Colorado Constitution that the Colorado Supreme Court...

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

In a terse 7-0 decision today the Colorado Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the state Title Board's approval of a 2008 proposed...

Scrambling the ‘Egg-as-Person’ Ballot Measure

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...

Anti-Abortion Measures Inches Closer to Ballot

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...