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.

Voters to Personhood: Stick a Fork In It. You’re Done (UNLESS ROMNEY-RYAN ARE ELECTED) 30AUG12

THE repiglican's & tea-bagger's right wing social engineers won't have a personhood amendment on any state ballot on election day, the first time in a couple of years. Some think the threat is over, but if mitt romney is elected along with a repiglican / tea-bagger controlled House and Senate the threat comes roaring back and women's rights and their access to birth control and safe abortion when needed are all gone. Break out the burqas, christian sharia is on the way....

By Dahlia Ward McManus

This year, voters have overwhelmingly rejected personhood initiatives sending  messages to personhood proponents, as in:  ‘over.’  ‘Finito.’  Not interested. The fat lady has sung and your idea is a loser.
You would have thought the writing was on the wall.  Last November, voters in Mississippi decisively defeated a personhood initiative which, if passed, would have amended the state Constitution to grant legal rights to fertilized eggs, and in the process ban many forms of hormonal contraception and in-vitro fertilization, not to mention all abortions – without exceptions.  Mississippians resoundingly rejected that proposal by a 16- point margin.  And that was in Mississippi, arguably the most conservative state in the nation.
Apparently, the message wasn’t clear enough.   Instead of realizing that this extreme proposal would not gain traction anywhere, personhood proponents announced their intention to get proposals on the ballot in not one, but one dozen states this year.  But as in Mississippi, voters weren’t buying what they were selling and they fell well short of their mark.  Voters across the country—in Oklahoma, Ohio, Oregon, Mississippi (again), Montana, Nevada, Arkansas, Florida and California—all declined to sign petitions in large enough numbers to even put the question on their ballots this fall. And that’s not including the states where politicians tried to pass personhood legislation—that too went nowhere (I’m looking at you Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Washington and Wisconsin).
Up until yesterday, it looked like fetal personhood would only be able to make it on the ballot this year in just one state: Colorado, the home of Personhood USA (the national organization behind these efforts); a state with, let’s be honest, one of the lowest thresholds in the country for petitioning measures onto the ballot.  Out of a population of over 5 million, they needed only 86,105 valid signatures -- or 1.7 percent of the public – to get the initiative on the ballot.  Indeed, Colorado is the only state where personhood proponents have succeeded twice in getting on the ballot in the past-- in 2008 and again in 2010.  Both times, voters rejected fetal personhood by a 2 to 1 margin. This year was different—they couldn’t even find 1.7 percent of the public willing to sign their petition, let alone vote on it.  Two percent of voters think Mitt Romney’s first name is “Mittens” for crying out loud.    If you can’t find 2 percent of voters who agree with you, it’s time to throw in the towel.  Time to pack your bags and go home.  The voters have spoken and they’re not interested.
Are you listening this time?
http://www.aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom/voters-personhood-stick-fork-it-youre-done