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.
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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?
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.
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