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Tag: Personhood USA
Wiretap: An ‘unstable psychiatric condition’ at Fort Hood
Ivan Lopez, who killed three and wounded 16 before killing himself, was being treated for depression and anxiety. Officials said there were no indications he was violent or suicidal.
Anti-abortion group’s ballot initiative never mentions abortion
It's the fourth attempt by personhood groups since 2010 to pass a state constitutional amendment here that would grant "unborn human persons" legal rights. This one takes a different tack.
Personhood Colorado not taking no for an answer
Jennifer Mason, spokeswoman for Personhood Colorado, told the Colorado Independent, she believes it's not too late for her group to land its anti-abortion initiative on the ballot in Colorado this year.
‘No Personhood’ Colorado campaign cautions against big government
DENVER-- A rally hosted here Thursday on the steps of the capitol by this year's "No Personhood Campaign" featured speakers who decried government intervention into citizens' private lives and admonished overreaching political activists who would tap the organs of the state to solve perceived social ills.
National abortion politics take center stage in Colorado
DENVER— The political battle in Colorado over abortion, women’s healthcare and family planning heated up Monday when lawmakers, activist groups and supporters on opposite sides of the issues took turns rallying on the west steps of the capitol here.
Romney’s shaky record on abortion draws attack from left and right
As Saturday's South Carolina primary voting draws close, presidential candidate Mitt Romney is being savaged on the right for his shifting stance on abortion, just as he was savaged months ago on the left for his shifting stance on abortion.
Colorado GOP swing-district candidates already dodgy on ‘personhood’
Federal presidential-election-year campaigns are heating up in Colorado now that the boundaries of the state's congressional districts have been updated. Yet, so far, Mike Coffman and Scott Tipton, the Republican representatives of new more-competitive districts Six and Three, have yet to articulate for the record their stands on "personhood," the hard-line anti-abortion proposition that has become a litmus-test issue in Colorado after having landed on the ballot as an initiative in the last two general elections and after clearing hurdles to speed toward the ballot again this year.
VIDEO: Personhood, killed in Mississippi, may be headed for ballot in...
Perhaps believing the third time is the charm, Personhood Colorado has announced it will once again seek to amend the Colorado constitution in order to define human life as beginning at the moment of conception. If passed by voters, the proposed amendment would ban all abortions except to save the life of the mother.
VIDEO: Personhood USA is modern civil rights movement, supporters say
Personhood USA, the group behind ballot initiatives that aim to define life as beginning at the moment of conception, has unveiled a new video, comparing its efforts to ban abortion to the civil rights movement.
Citing embrace of personhood, Dems say Romney candidacy doomed in Colorado
Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has struggled to win over social-conservative primary campaign voters, but he recently took up the hard-core anti-abortion, anti-birth control, anti-stem cell personhood movement, which would grant full citizen rights to fertilized human eggs. It's a move that will surely doom his chances to win a general election in Colorado, according to First District Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette, head of the congressional pro-choice caucus, and state Democratic Party Chairman Rick Palacio.