Saturday, November 17, 2007

More Colorado Insanity

Colorado, like California, ranges politically from the lunatic authoritarian Christan ring-wing nuts of Colorado Springs to the whacked out self-absorbed people's republic of Boulder. Usually both groups are kept contained within in their respective reservations, but recently the christofascists emerged from their caves to annoy the rest of us.

The Colorado Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for an anti-abortion group to collect signatures for a ballot measure that would define a fertilized egg as a person.


While I see where they are going with this, their lack of understanding basic human biology means that the law would define nearly every sexually active woman as committing murder when one of her fertilized eggs doesn't implant. So even if it passes, it will clog the courts and waste everyone's time getting it overturned. When the left uses the law to harass business the right has a fit, but when they do the same thing, they turn a blind eye.

Thanks to Brilliant at Breakfast for pointing this out.

2 comments:

K T Cat said...

every sexually active woman as committing murder when one of her fertilized eggs doesn't implant

Wow. That sounds pretty dramatic. Who suggested punishing this as a crime?

Kelly the little black dog said...

I doubt that anyone would go that far, but it does illustrate that its a poorly conceived law. It doesn't adequately differentiate between abortion, their real target, and contraception, or even natural processes. There will be years of scarce court resources spent fighting this. The original court should have thrown it out from the beginning and made them rewrite it.