Washington, D.C. (25 August 2009) – The state that pushed the human personhood movement into the national spotlight with last year’s Amendment 48 campaign is gearing up for its largest petition drive to date.
The 2010 Personhood Amendment campaign launched its drive at a press conference Aug. 25 in Denver. The drive will now begin gathering the 76,047 signatures required to place the amendment on the November 2010 ballot.
“As Colorado personhood activists blaze a trail for true equality under the law for all human beings, we stand alongside them in their efforts to gain legal recognition of the inalienable rights of every single American – born and preborn,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League.
American Life League is working to have a Federal Human Personhood Amendment introduced in the United States Congress.
In 2008, Colorado paved the way for over a dozen other states to pursue personhood initiatives. Colorado’s proposed 2010 Personhood Amendment reads as follows:
"An amendment to the Colorado Constitution applying the term 'person' as used in those provisions of the Colorado Constitution relating to inalienable rights, equality of justice, and due process of law, to every human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being."
American Life League was cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown. It is the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States and is committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment of creation to natural death. For more information or press inquiries, please contact Katie Walker at 540.659.4942.
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