Colorado Amendment 48
One of the issues on the Colorado ballot Tuesday is Amendment 48, which, if approved, would designate that a person's a person, no matter how small, or, specifically, as of the moment of conception.
I have difficulty with this on many grounds, including all the unimportant ones like getting government the hell out of our bedrooms and allowing women to control their own bodies, but mainly, because I don't think it goes far enough. I'd like to propose that the law be changed to bestow personhood on an individual two hours before conception.
This would finally give guys a legal footing to insist on sex, since refusal by a woman would be the moral equivalent of murder. Of course, on the other hand, the guy would have to be willing to be responsible for a pregnancy and to be responsible for the parenthood of his child. What a concept.
What do you think?
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Post-election post-script.
Amendment 48 failed by a substantial margin - nearly three-to-one statewide, two-to-one even in ultra-conservative El Paso County where it was thought up. Yay!
posted by Mique @ 10:43 PM
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