In 2008, Colorado voters overwhelmingly opposed ballot language defining personhood as including any human being from the moment of fertilization. This year’s ballot question, known as Amendment 62, is written virtually the same. Instead of saying a human life begins at the moment of fertilization, it says life begins at the “biological development” of that human being.
The ultimate goal is to make abortion illegal, and the ballot means to do that by drawing what would almost certainly be a court challenge. Personhood supporters hope that inevitable lawsuit will lead to a reversal of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that led to legalized abortions.
In 2008, however, top GOP leaders said if the personhood measure ended up in court, it ran the risk of solidifying that court ruling rather than reversing it. The politics behind the ballot question, just like politics in general this year compared to 2008, are entirely different. That election was viewed as a big Democratic year, and polarizing GOP social issues such as abortion were unlikely to go anywhere. Daily Sentinel
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