by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

June 18, 2012 - 7:40 am

Due to lack of support, there will be no “personhood” on the state’s ballot this year.

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

May 21, 2012 - 6:17 pm

He’s the last man standing, but that doesn’t mean the most extreme of the anti-choice activists are willing to accept him.

by Tanya Castle

May 9, 2012 - 4:11 am

On April 26th Canada’s Parliament debated M-312, a motion that calls for the formation of a special committee of Parliament to review whether the definition of a “human being” as described in the Canadian criminal code can be extended to unborn fetuses.

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

May 2, 2012 - 7:55 pm

Tuesday, they complained that nothing was getting through committee.  But by Thursday they hope to have new restrictions ready to be signed into law.

by Rachael Vinyard

April 20, 2012 - 5:04 am

A Republican caucus has decided to keep the Oklahoma personhood measure from being heard.

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

April 10, 2012 - 8:22 pm

Trying to grant rights to fertilized eggs has been going on for decades.  But not to this extreme.

by Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women

April 5, 2012 - 8:04 am

Citizens in Mississippi, once, and Colorado, twice, have resoundingly rejected so called “personhood” measures that would have established the “pre-born” as separate legal persons under the law. There is increasing evidence that when people understand the broad reach of such measures, they vote them down. But what happens when prosecutors and judges misuse their power and “pass” such measures in disguise?

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

March 28, 2012 - 7:01 pm

If the state’s voters don’t want it, the legislature will just force it on them.

by Jessica Mason Pieklo, Senior Legal Analyst, RH Reality Check

March 19, 2012 - 8:30 pm

The pro-corporate personhood movement and the anti-woman, anti-choice movement share the same attorney: conservative campaign-finance crusader and abortion-rights foe James Bopp Jr., the legal architect behind Citizens United.

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

March 19, 2012 - 4:53 pm

Gals, in the eyes of Colorado Assistant House Majority Leader Mark Waller, when it comes to fertilized eggs as people, women are toast. His comment on the bill he just passed through the House? “The goal of this bill is not to protect women. The goal of this bill is to protect unborn children.”  Ya know, Mark… we kinda got that message.