Coloradans Decisively Defeat Egg-As-Person Amendment

In overwhelming numbers, Coloradans today refused to extend legal personhood rights to fertilized eggs.

In overwhelming numbers, Coloradans today refused to extend legal personhood rights to fertilized eggs.  With eight percent of precincts reporting, voters oppose Amendment 48, an initiative that would ultimately criminalize abortion, ban forms of hormonal birth control, and outlaw IVF a whopping 75% to 23%. Amendment 48 was opposed by medical and legal professional organizations as well as pro-life Governor Bill Ritter, and, apparently, a vast majority of Coloradans.

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