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JACKSON, Miss., March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Mississippi resident and post abortive mother Anne Reed filed a Life at Conception Citizen's Initiative, which states: "The right to life begins at conception. All human beings, at every stage of development, are unique, created in God's image and shall have equal rights as persons under the law." "This amendment is a common sense approach to protecting both babies and women from the devastation of abortion," stated...

BISMARCK, N.D., Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the first time in US history, a personhood amendment has passed the North Dakota Senate. SCR 4009 states, "the inalienable right to life of every human being at any stage of development must be recognized and protected." In addition, the Senate has approved SB 2303 which "ensures that the protection that our criminal laws afford to victims of crimes extends to all human beings born and unborn." SCR 4009 is the first...

DENVER, Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While researching the scandal of the Catholic Health Initiatives legal briefs which denied the personhood of unborn children, Personhood USA has learned that the same Colorado hospital chain may be allowing or participating in abortions on the Catholic hospital grounds. In November of 2010, a woman suffering a miscarriage sought treatment at Four Corners OB/GYN, which is located at Mercy Regional (listed as a CHI hospital) in Durango,...

40 Years After, 150 Years After, 9 Days After DENVER, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Colorado Right To Life notes that this Sunday's March for Life in Denver is forty years after the infamous Roe v. Wade opinion, 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and nine days after the Alabama Supreme Court unanimously held that the word "child" in a state child abuse law applies equally to an unborn child. This Sunday, January 20, at 12:30 p.m., CRTL is hosting our annual...

DENVER, Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thomas Goldstein, a leading Washington lawyer and publisher of SCOTUSblog.com predicts that the upcoming Supreme Court term is "probably the biggest term in at least a decade." Prominent among the handful of politically charged issues facing the Supreme Court is Oklahoma's personhood initiative. On April 30, in a rare move against the people of Oklahoma, the State Supreme Court ruled against the ballot initiative before it went to a...

DENVER, Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Personhood Colorado submitted signatures to the Secretary of State's office today for the Colorado Personhood Amendment. The signatures submitted totaled 112,121, although only 86,105 were required. All signatures are pending validation by the Colorado Secretary of State's office. "Once again, we are amazed at the tenacity of our nearly fifteen hundred volunteers," remarked Rosalinda Lozano, Amendment Sponsor. "We had seven fewer weeks...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Tuesday vote showed overwhelming support for Personhood in Georgia, with 66% of voters showing support to amend the Georgia constitution to grant the paramount right to life to all innocent human beings. The measure was passed in 158 of the 159 counties in Georgia. The non-binding GOP primary results overwhelmingly supported Georgia's Personhood amendment. Georgia Right to Life President Dan Becker has called on the State...

BISMARCK, N.D., June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An incumbent state Senator who single-handedly killed personhood legislation in both 2009 and 2011 became the first to be defeated in a national campaign to remove personhood obstructionists from office. Senator Curtis Olafson lost his bid for re-election in Tuesday's Republican primary by 20 percentage points to Senator Joe Miller, the pro-life lawmaker who fought to revive the 2011 personhood bill. The 2011 Defense of Human...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Stem Cell Action Coalition opposes Virginia House Bill No.1, the so-called Virginia "personhood bill." The Virginia Senate Committee on Education and Health is scheduled to take the matter up this week. The language of the personhood bill states, in part, that the laws of Virginia "shall be interpreted and construed to acknowledge on behalf of unborn children at every stage of development all of the rights, privileges and...

Voters in Mississippi decided against making abortion illegal in the state on Tuesday, making a statement that a fertilized egg is not a person. The "personhood" proposal (http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1112416100/debate-over-personhood-amendment-heating-up/index.html) was intended to prompt a legal challenge aimed at overturning Roe v. Wade, which was the 1973 Supreme Court decision that established a legal right to abortion. Personhood USA pushed the measured in Mississippi, and...