Colorado and Missouri Wage War on Women’s Rights
Television, radio and newspapers; wherever you get your news information from, all people seem to be able to talk about are the 2008 election. This upcoming election is very important, especially considering the war on women’s rights that is only getting more heated and more severe as the election looms closer; especially with the panel of Republicans that have been assembled.
According to US News and World Report, 11 different abortion bans have been introduced to states legislatures just in the past year. With that and with the upcoming election, anti-abortion activists are introducing a variety of ballot initiatives in hopes of abolishing a woman’s right to have control over her own body and reproductive rights.
In the state of Missouri, The Elliot Group, an anti-abortion group which is based out of Illinois, is attempting to introduce a ballot entitled Prevention of Coerced and Unsafe Abortion Act; nice name, huh? Because women are not able to make informed decisions about their bodies and uterus without being coerced.
If The Elliot Group is successful in receiving their mandatory 90,000 signatures to a petition to instate this initiative, it will appear on the 2008 voter’s ballot and the state of Missouri will face an initiative which would require doctors to review abortion-related “medical literature” which will undoubtedly consist of myths made up and enforced by anti-choice activists and literature that is commonly used in crisis pregnancy centers to scare or enforce the so-called immorality of the act of abortion. The doctor will also be required to investigate the background and lifestyle of women seeking abortions as well as prove that it was medically necessary to perform the abortion to save the mother from death or disability that would have occurred if the abortion had not been performed. Furthermore, they take the extra step to insult women across the country by saying that abortion causes long-term physical, psychological and emotional problems; none of which can be scientifically proven. This legislature would also provide absolutely no exception whatsoever for rape and incest victims.
Colorado for Equal Rights, whose name itself is laughable, is working towards adding a ballot initiative to the November 2008 ballot that will amend the state constitution to define a fertilized egg as a person.
Ah yes, fertilized egg–person; omelet–living, breathing, talking, functioning, college-bound human being! Yes, I can definitely see how they go hand in hand.
If this initiative is passed, it will then threaten the use of emergency contraceptives used by literally millions of women across the country. Voters in Colorado will have that to think about if Colorado for Equal Rights gains their needed 76,000 signatures in order to place this initiative on the 2008 ballot.
So think hard women voters of Missouri and Colorado. Even if you do not live in those two states, there are a number of different bans on abortion in a total of 15 different states.
Jamie Hudson on Wed, 23rd Jan 2008 12:50 am
I can’t believe that in 2008, we still have to fight for our individual rights. Why do others feel that they must impose their own “morals” on others?
UK Celebrity News on Wed, 23rd Jan 2008 2:34 pm
I don’t know what laws are in USA but in my country women have full rights.
SeniorVoice on Thu, 24th Jan 2008 10:25 pm
This is outrageous!
My grandma didn’t fight for women’s rights in her younger days for someone to take away our right to choose whether or not to bring a child into this world. Everyone’s circumstance is different.
I don’t want to be controlled now nor as I grow old.
Natalia Vasylyk DDS on Fri, 25th Jan 2008 9:01 am
Women will never lose abortion rights in the US – a genuine development which appeared to take these rights away would lead to a major political upheaval, and the attempt would have to be reversed.
SAS on Tue, 29th Jan 2008 11:06 pm
Luckily we are moving forward and not backward, heck our most sought after right is forgotten about…voting!
Pro Life Is About Anti-Choice on Thu, 31st Jan 2008 10:16 pm
That makes the 2008 presidential election all the more important – we’re only one Supreme Court vote away from all those laws being upheld.
MAC on Thu, 28th Feb 2008 9:18 am
Woman should be respected! its 2008 already, we are not supposed to keep on fighting for our rights. We should have the same rights as men’s do!
Brakingnews on Wed, 12th Mar 2008 4:45 pm
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job on Sun, 16th Mar 2008 10:03 am
this kind of war should be occurring at all as women are human too,nothing is different as compared to men..
scoop on Sun, 16th Mar 2008 2:25 pm
A fertilized egg is a person? The conservatives are pushing it on that one.
Although, I am not a fan of abortion, the idea that an fertilized egg is a person is ridiculous.
An Angry Colorado Resident... on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 5:09 pm
that legislation will never go through in Colorado. It’s crazy that it even made news. Colorado has long moved away from conservativism, and we have the voting record to prove it. Won’t happen…
St Louis Missouri News on Wed, 7th May 2008 11:03 pm
Its really hard to believe that in 2008, Women still have to fight for individual rights.
I am soo tired of others who feel that they must impose their own “morals” on others?
güvenlik uniformalari on Thu, 19th Jun 2008 9:55 am
THANK YOU
diane on Mon, 20th Oct 2008 10:10 pm
Hey nutty people, go read the bill–it says absolutely nothing of the sort. I am embarrased to be a feminist. I today realize that most of us are not “pro-choice” you are all “pro-abortion” women should be able to choose, not be coerced, shame on all of you….educate yourselves, no wonder pro-lifers want to educate us!
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills081/bilsum/commit/sHB1831C.htm
Fantasy on Tue, 19th Jan 2010 1:17 pm
thatnks you ) good work, interesting article.