There is much talk about Colorado’s Amendment 48, the proposed constitutional amendment that would grant full legal rights to fertilized eggs. There should be much talk. This amendment should scare the crap out of people. You can go here and sign the petition opposing this amendment. There’s been some discussion here on the post I did in June. I thought it time to bring it to the front again. According to a commenter, Bob Enyart, a Denver talk radio host, is the main character behind this bill. He says about Enyart:

I don’t know if any of that is true, but you can read more about Bob (this guy is a freak) here.

Some background on the amendment:

Amendment 48 seeks to define a fertilized egg as a person with full legal rights in Colorado’s constitution. If fully implemented, it would profoundly and adversely impact the lives of sexually-active couples, couples seeking children, pregnant women, doctors, and medical researchers, subjecting them to severe legal restrictions, police controls, protracted court battles, and criminal punishments.

Amendment 48 would outlaw abortion, even in cases of rape, incest, terminally deformed fetuses, and danger to the woman’s health. The measure might or might not allow abortions in cases of extreme risk to the woman’s life; either way, it would endanger the lives and health of many women. In conjunction with existing statutes, Amendment 48 would subject women and their doctors to first-degree murder charges for willfully terminating a pregnancy, with the required punishment of life in prison or the death penalty.

Update: September 21, 2008
Check out SecularGovernment.us, where they discuss some of the serious implications of this proposed amendment, including its effects on the legality of abortion, birth control, and in vitro fertilization. And we offer a strong defense of abortion rights based on the biological facts of pregnancy.