Truth in advertising
There is currently a push in Colorado to get a measure on the November ballot to define "person" or "persons" as any form of human being beginning at fertilization. The reality here is to use this as an end-around to push anti-abortion rights reforms without doing so in an overt pro-life fashion. If an embryo or fetus is endowed with the rights of a U.S. citizen, the mere planning of an abortion could possibly be considered conspiracy to commit murder.
I'll let everyone decide how they should feel about this proposal; this post is more about the measure's supporters and their rally Tuesday in Denver. Among the materials, signs and shirts used and worn by the proponents (including "Horton Hears A Who" shirts bearing the slogan, 'A person is a person, no matter how small'), there was a banner with the face of an infant on it.
Call me crazy, but if you're trying to gain legal rights for fertilized eggs, put the fertilized egg on the banner — the kid has already been endowed by the Constitution with every right and responsibility of American citizenship thanks in large part to having been born.
