All Humans are Persons

The Rocky Mountain News, LifeNews and others are reporting that Colorado efforts to define unborn human beings as "persons" from conception onward received a boost today as the Colorado Supreme Court approved the language of a ballot initiative. The language had been challenged by pro-abortion groups.

It's interesting to note the transparently mocking, disdainful attitude of the "mainstream" media toward this story, referring to the unborn child as simply a "fertilized egg" and headlines such as "Court clears way for egg rights showdown." They are desperate to minimize the humanity of unborn children and hope to divert people from the truth by planting in people's minds images of something they have for breakfast, rather than a human being.

From LifeNews:

The language the board approved defines "the term 'person' to include any human being from the moment of fertilization as 'person' is used in those provisions of the Colorado Constitution relating to inalienable rights, equality of justice and due process of law."

The text of the ballot measure can be read here from The Jurist.

It says:

"Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution defining the term “person” to include any human being from the moment of fertilization as “person” is used in those provisions of the Colorado constitution relating to inalienable rights, equality of justice, and due process of law?"

Since the unborn child has, from conception, a completely unique set of DNA, distinguishing the child from it's mother, it seems completely reasonable to recognize the unborn child, not as a part of the mother that she can do with as she pleases, but a distinct human being which deserves the dignity and rights afforded to other human beings under the Constitution.

This issue of "personhood" is incidentally the critical distinction identified by pro-abortion jurist Henry Blackmun when he wrote the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision making abortion the law of the land. In other words, he admitted from the beginning this "Achilles Heel" of justifying abortion.

From WorldNetDaily on Blackmun's statement:

He concluded: "(If the) suggestion of personhood [of the preborn] is established, the [abortion rights] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment."

Our understanding of the science of life and fetal development have expanded tremendously since 1973, as the South Dakota Task Force to Study Abortion found from expert testimony in 2005. The personhood of the unborn is now more certain than ever.

Next year, South Dakota will also likely be considering a measure to ban abortion. A number of other states are already considering bills to ban abortion, and more will certainly do so next year, as well. The tide of science, human understanding, and justice will eventually overwhelm the argument of convenience against this barbaric practice.