Montana Prolife Coalition Proposes `Personhood' Ballot Initiatives

The Montana ProLife Coalition on Wednesday submitted three proposed constitutional initiatives for the 2010 ballot defining “unborn babies” as persons with rights, that would effectively ban abortion in Montana. Each proposal would define a person as a human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human. “The language of the personhood amendment proclaims what most people already know, which is that human life begins at conception and that all human beings are persons,” Dr. Annie Bukacek, a Kalispell internist, told a rally of about 50 people on the Capitol steps. Similar efforts on “personhood” initiatives are under way in Colorado, Oregon and Mississippi, with more states to follow later this year, backers said.
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Posted by Editor at July 2, 2009 05:34 AM