Amendment 62

Amendment 62 Election Results Analysis

Conventional Wisdom Busted as 30% Oppose ALL Abortion: Conventional wisdom claimed that only 15% of voters in America will support a 100% abortion ban (which Personhood requires, even in saving the mother's life when the need is not to "terminate" but to deliver the baby). CRTL is proving that all the Gallup polls and claims of politicians vastly underestimate how many people are willing to protect every innocent child without exception.

Personhood Vote Grows from 2008 to 2010: The YES vote on Personhood grew to narrow our loss from a 3-to-1 defeat in 2008 to a 2-to-1 defeat in 2010 with now 30% voting YES on a 100% abortion ban and personhood. That encourages us!

Gains Despite Dem Turnout: Significant personhood gains were made even in a heavily Democratic year. "Turnout in Colorado actually swung from +1 GOP in 2008 to +5 Democratic in 2010, a 6-point move," reported The Weekly Standard. So even with a much more hostile electorate (Democrats trend "pro-choice"), personhood gained tens of thousands of additional votes when Colorado's massive grassroots campaign put pro-life educational materials into the hands of hundreds of thousands of voters. For we can reach the hearts and minds of our fellow human beings with the power and simplicity of the personhood message that from their biological beginning every person has the God-given right to life.

Gains Despite Pro-life Opposition: The triumvirate of pro-life opposition to fighting for personhood in Colorado comes from Focus on the Family, "National" Right To Life, and the Roman Catholic Archbishops. These groups are working to kill personhood bills and oppose personhood amendments in states across America (just a couple 2011 examples: Louisiana in 2011, Mississippi). The truth eventually wins, regardless of which leaders or groups oppose it. Yet in Colorado, we might win sooner if only these "pro-family" organizations will stop opposing the effort to compel the government to enforce each child's right to life, and actually begin advocating for enforcement of the God-given right to life, something that all of these groups currently refuse to do. The pro-life industry opposes personhood based on:
- long-answered objections and worn-out cliches, and based on
- a self-defeating insistence on waiting till the U.S. Supreme Court is ready (which history shows could take centuries)
- a lack of courage and willingness to educate the leaders and the people on the God-given right to life of every child.
Instead, the pro-life industry has raised hundreds of millions of dollars promoting child-killing regulations while supporting politicians who have exceptions (meaning that they oppose the dismembering of only some children). For these reasons, Colorado RTL is not affiliated with "National" but with "American" Right To Life, the pro-personhood national organization.

The Denver Post's 3-to-1 Headline is Wrong; Should be 2-to 1: The personhood loss in 2008 was closer to 3-to-1. But the increase in the personhood Yes votes in 2010 closed the gap to close to a 2-to-1 ratio. Yet Electa Draper and the Denver Post have refused to correct the following false headline they ran:

Title Board OKs CO Personhood Amendment Text

Update: See also Denver Post: "Colorado 'Personhood' proposal's 2010 ballot title approved," which reporter Lynn Bartels concludes with this from CRTL's vice president Leslie Hanks, "Since our so-called trouncing, 25 other states are pursuing this, so, yes, we are optimistic," Hanks said.

CRTL's Press Release:

Colorado Secretary of State’s Title Board Unanimously Approves
Proposed 2010 Personhood Amendment Language

For Immediate Release
August 5, 2009

Denver, Colorado - The offices of the Colorado Attorney General, The Secretary of State, and Legislative Legal Services voted 3-0 that the proposed 2010 Personhood Amendment meets the required single subject rule and also voted 3-0 that the language is not misleading. Personhood Colorado director Gualberto Garcia Jones J.D. and Colorado Right To Life vice president Leslie Hanks explained the difference between the 2008 Personhood Amendment and this year's...

It's Official! PERSONHOOD IS ON THE BALLOT!!

UPDATE: A62 is the Only Pro-Life Issue on the Ballot Nationwide!

CONGRATULATIONS to the more than 1,400 petition circulators and to the co-sponsors, CRTL's very own Leslie Hanks and Gualberto Garcia-Jones of Personhood Colorado!

The Colorado Secretary of State has certified that Personhood Amendment 62, Definition of Person, will appear on the statewide ballot in November!

Personhood Campaign Talking Points

Personhood Amendment 62 Talking Points

Persons not Property: Please vote YES on Colorado's Personhood Amendment because then: “. . . the term ‘person’ shall apply to every human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being.” (actual wording)

Snowflake Children: This baby girl was adopted, like all the snowflake kids, as a frozen embryo. A snowflake child is one of the strongest proofs that the single-celled human is a person. Little Elisha Lancaster, frozen for years, appears in an online Amendment 62 video with her mom Maria. Elisha was fully alive, fully human, and not a boy but already a little girl, at the very moment that she came into existence in a laboratory. Then, four years later, this tiny person was adopted, Federal Expressed across the country, and implanted in mom’s womb.

Will the Personhood Amendment Stop Abortion? Our law prohibits the intentional killing of an innocent person. So yes, the illegality and unconstitutionality of abortion will finally be evident. What about Roe? See Dred and Roe v. Wade below.

Isn’t It Part of the Woman’s Body? Half the time the fetus is a boy. Always the mother is female. Her son’s Y chromosome cannot be part of mom. He’s a genetically distinct individual. And whether it’s a baby boy or girl, the baby is not the woman’s body, but has his or her own body within mom. The unborn baby’s first cry for food is actually a pheromone signal, from one organism to another. A hormone is a chemical signal between organs within an organism, but the baby’s request is a human pheromone. So while still traveling toward the womb, the fetal cry lets mom know the baby’s already hungry!

Blue Book Alternative for 2010 Election

Thank you to the Blue Book Alternative! Blatant false information in Colorado’s official, though biased, 2010 Blue Book voter guide includes this outright lie from Planned Parenthood and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) that, “Amendment 62 may also limit… treatment for miscarriages,” which is false because in a miscarriage, tragically, the baby has already died. The Blue Book also falsely claims, against all scientific and medical research and common usage of English grammar, that the phrase “the beginning of biological development,” is “a term which is not defined… and is not an accepted medical or scientific term.” Extensive medical and scientific documentation for the beginning of biological development appears at ColoradoRTL.org/beginning.

From BlueBookAlternative.com:

AMENDMENT 62 TEXT: The 2010 Personhood Amendment adds the following section to the Colorado constitution’s Bill of Rights:

Section 32. Person defined. As used in sections 3, 6, and 25 of Article II of the state constitution, the term “person” shall apply to every human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being.

ARGUMENTS AGAINST: See below.

Pam Tebow Endorses CRTL Personhood Amendment!

Denver, CO – 10/18/2010 – Following the exciting endorsement of the American Family Association and many other Christian groups and leaders, now Pam Tebow, mother of five including Denver Bronco Tim Tebow, has endorsed Colorado’s 2010 Personhood Amendment.

“A child’s right to life begins at conception, not at birth. From conception, all children are people, made in the image and likeness of God. Thus, I support the Personhood amendment and appeal to Colorado voters to vote 'yes' on amendment 62!” -Pam Tebo