'Personhood' Abortion Issue Is Back on the Colorado Ballot

The zygote/fetus is a mass of human cells but so are you. Are you not a human person? By human cell count a Zygote is 2,500 times closer biologically to a newborn baby than a newborn baby is to an adult. Exactly how many living human cells do you propose equals human life? The zygote is one living human cell that contains the complete genetic instructions and essential life force necessary to become the entire human person that it is, just like you. That is science, not "belief". It is radical religious belief that claims that unborn children are not alive human persons! Granting rights to in-utero person does not diminish a mothers rights! Both have rights which need consideration!

I am a strong believer in the fact that it's a woman's right to choose. Could I do it? Probably not. But it's still my right. And it's my constitutional right to privacy not to have other people poking their noses in my business if I do choose to get an abortion. Still, I understand the reasoning behind wanting to make abortion illegal. But to not make exceptions for rape, incest or the mother's help? That's absurd and absolutely disrespectful. How would one of these men feel if his wife got pregnant, the baby was going to kill her, and she had no way to choose whether or not she wanted to keep living. Or say one of them has a crazy son who rapes his sister and impregnates her. Well, not only is she psychologically damaged from the rape (and the incest!), she now has to keep a baby she doesn't want, didn't plan for, and that will probably have so many developmental problems from inbreeding that she can't pay for medical help for her child. And not even because of a mistake she made, but because a man took advantage of her body, and another man has dictated her choices for her. Also, you can't be against abortion and birth control. Sorry. At some point you have to take a step back and say, "What is the most reasonable and rational thing we can do here." People are going to have sex and not want to face the consequences. Irresponsible and selfish? Maybe. But we're human and that's life and you can't expect the world to conform. And, if you do outlaw abortion and birth control, women are still going to find ways to get both. Those ways will just be harmful and sketchy. It happened in the 20's, it would happen in the 2000s. Yet another problem I have with Amendment 62 is outlawing all forms of birth control that aren't barrier methods. A male condom has a theoretical failure rate of 2 percent. If you use it correctly and nothing goes wrong. The actual-use failure rate is 15 percent. It's a woman's right to decide how she wants to family plan. Not only that, but birth control is used for more than just preventing pregnancy. One major use of birth control is to control the symptoms of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, PMDD. It's basically PMS so bad that you can't function for 3 days to a week. I would know, I have it. Spikes in my unregulated hormone levels that cause me to faint. Stomach pains for 4 straight days so bad I can't eat. Being so fatigued I would sleep 15 hours a day for almost a week. Missing classes, practices, tests for a week every month. Welcome to my life for one week a month before I started birth control. It interferes with a woman's life and her health. Would someone really make women have to go through with that EVERY MONTH? How would these men feel watching their daughters suffer the way I did? Thankfully I've outgrown it in my 20s, but I remember, and I would never make another girl go through that because she wasn't allowed to have birth control. Now, I'm a Christian, and my boyfriend and I have decided to wait for marriage. But our choices aren't everyone else's. So doesn't this country have a separation of Church and state, making religious arguments for banning abortion in the Constitution a moot point?

Seriously people, it's just a small collections of cells! Do you realize that you are getting rid of the same amount of cells by scratching your face as you are by having an abortion (granted its in the first trimester)??!! I'm completely pro-choice. A lot of laws similar to this proposed one say that an abortion can only be performed in the case of danger of the mother's life- having a child at my age (19) would endanger my life! I'd have to pay for a child I wasn't expecting to have, drop out of college, probably go on unemployment and be another burden on the government, not to mention my parents. That means I can't do what I want and have a successful life, and the kid probably won't either. Laws like this just make me so mad because it's like, if you don't agree with abortions, great! Don't get one! But don't take away the opportunity for me to decide for myself. I don't believe in your God or Bible, so how can you force your ideals on me? I will control my own body, thank you very much, no government has any right trying to make decisions for me.

This isn't about abortion. Just as in the first attempt, it's about passing a law that is TOO broad, and will put the general health of women at risk, not to mention stealing her right to choose a birth control method. Condoms are the least reliable of most available methods - if you don't want to see so many "pregnancy prevention" abortions, do not try to legislate birth control as well. Moreover, the fact that there are NO exceptions here for the health of a woman are just unbelievable. Are these organizations going to pay money and provide nurturing to the children who lose their mother before they are even born and leave a father to raise them on his own? So sad this even made the ballot again.

how much of the funding given to PPH goes to education, health and wellness, maternal/child health, prevention? how much of it goes to abortion? i have never heard of someone regretting using birth control. i have never heard of anyone regretting being educated? but i have heard of women regretting having an abortion. the taking of a life is still the taking of a life. whether new or old. the creator said He knit us together in the womb. He put us together in the secret place. He know the numbers of the hairs on our heads. He created us for His pleasure.

Where do these people get their funding? As a moderate/conservative who is PRO-CHOICE, I suggest they stop throwing money into this black hole. Roe v Wade will never be overturned. The majority of American women support their right to decide this issue for themselves, whether they will admit it to your face, or not. What many of us do not support is the length of time allowed to make the decision to give birth, or not. Anything beyond the FIRST TRIMESTER is an abomination. If you haven't decided by that time, then you lost your right to choose.

Imagine that, the Republicans, the party that says government should get out of people's lives now wants to tell people how they will act in bed, during pregnancy, before conception, after conception, etc....
Gee, next they'll be trying to pass a bill allowing wiretaps, library list checks, email hacks....oh...wait...they already did that one.

If you want to ban abortion, also include prevention too as that is just as unnatural. Toss hysterectomies out except in cases of eminent death. Condoms got to go. Birth control pills out too! This should do the trick in overpopulating the world and finishing our race off once and for all. Nature likes moderation and doesn't tolerate overabundance for long. The sooner we do the wrong things the quicker the earth will recover from us not being around

Have any of you ever heard of something called overpopulation?

Those who choose, participate in, or conduct abortions will someday have to answer for the murder of the innocents. Do you really think God doesn't care about 50 million dead babies?