Personhood now has a 0-5 win-loss record in elections 5NOV14

THE hypocrisy on this issue is very clear. The so called "religious" groups pushing personhood amendments claim to be pro-life. Their policies do not include adequate funding for SNAP (food stamps), health care, education, day care, housing subsidies, job training, unemployment insurance and all the other social safety net programs needed by so many in our country. They do not support raising the minimum wage, a living wage and fair pay for women. These are all pro-life issues benefiting children, women, families, and they are either opposed by or are not supported by these groups. So they are hypocrites. These people and the politicians they support, mostly gop / tea-baggers and some democrats are doubly hypocritical because they also claim they want the government out of their lives except for controlling the reproductive aspects of women's bodies. Fortunately, for now, the American people in every region across the country, regardless of the politics of their state, have rejected by solid majorities every "personhood" amendment put before them on election ballots. Pro-life politics don't end at birth and the American people understand this. So while they may not be voting for funding and doing all the things listed above needed to be pro life they are also rejecting the hypocrisy of the groups and politicians to legislate children being born into poverty, neglect and abuse. This from +Daily Kos .....

Wed Nov 05, 2014 at 07:37 AM PST

Personhood now has a 0-5 win-loss record in elections

by Laura Clawson

Voters rejected personhood measures in Colorado and North Dakota Tuesday night, doing so for the third time in Colorado. In fact, these extreme anti-abortion measures, which put fetuses above women, have accumulated a serious record of rejection:

Before this year's failed initiative, Colorado voters rejected two other personhood ballot initiatives, once in 2008 and again in 2010. In both years, the measures failed by double-digit margins. Mississippi voted on a personhood ballot initiative in 2012. It failed, too, with more than 55 percent opposing the amendment. Legislators have introduced personhood bills in Oklahoma and Virginia but neither passed.

But while personhood has never had an actual life as a law, it's likely to keep rising out of the grave as a zombie, lurching around chasing us on rotten legs. That's because there are a few dedicated extremists who will keep dedicating their lives to this, no matter how soundly their cause is rejected by voters who don't want to see all abortion, in vitro fertilization, and some forms of birth control criminalized. So be ready to see a similar measure resurface in at least one state over the next election cycle or two.

Originally posted to Laura Clawson on Wed Nov 05, 2014 at 07:37 AM PST.

Also republished by Good News and Daily Kos.