NEWS: Finally, Tiny Microscopic People Get A Chance

POLITICS: Finally, Tiny Microscopic People Get A Chance

Colorado apparently has its share of lunatics because yesterday the state Supreme Court gave an anti-abortion group the go ahead to try to put a measure on the ballot that would define a fertilized egg as a person. All they need to do is collect 76,000 signatures. Anyone want to bet that there are 76,000 Christian lunatics in Colorado?

This is the kind of election shit that liberals and centrists have to throw money at to defeat, which takes funds away from important races and also draws right wing voters to the polls. It won’t matter if the Christian right doesn’t like Rudy or McCain or Mitt, once they are in the booth, they will vote for one of them over which ever baby killer the Democrats pick.

Super. Hey, you know that one book you read all the time? I don’t really want to live by it. Although, I’m not sure The Bible ever covered fertilized eggs. This is just another attempt to make abortion illegal. These people are creative little fuckers, aren’t they?

Another effect of the legislation would be to create problems for in-vitro fertilization and stem cell research. And some believe it would lead to a ban on birth control. The Christians, of course, disagree. There is nothing behind this effort!

Oh, you’re just laying down a little foundation. That’s totally cool. But, I have a question for you: If a little clump of human cells is a person, then is one of my hairs a person? What about one of my turds? Why not? They both have human cells in them.

Uh huh. Maybe you guys could move somewhere else and start a theocracy.

The nutters have six months to collect the signatures. And they are not just focusing on Colorado. Christian groups are trying leading similar efforts in Montana, Georgia, Oregon, Michigan and South Carolina. The Republicans always need their crazy religious issue. For the 2004 presidential elections it was gay marriage. Now they will try to save microscopic peeps. Expect a massive turnout in Colorado in 2008.

all i can say is that after 2 - 4 months it should be illegal to have an abortion.

There are too many idiots in this world.

I wonder if these folks ever serve scrambled eggs and call it a chicken dinner?

Perhaps (barring extenuating circumstances like the mother's health and well-being), but still, a 4-month-old fetus is practically a grown ass man compared to a smaller-than-an-amoeba fertilized egg.

I hate crazy christians. It makes us all look like a bunch of nuts. I won't lie, I don't like the idea of abortion but I get it and I respect other's right. Of course there should be a limit, after 2 or 3 months it's a baby, but a fertilized egg.

I don't get the whole "hey lets force women to have babies they don't want" thing.

I wouldn't say having a strong belief in something makes you a crazy Christian lunatic.

My completely arbitrary abortion is okay cut off date can totally beat up your completely arbitrary abortion is okay cut off date.

The winner gets a back alley full of dead pregnant women.

Being a Buddhist (born and raised) living in Colorado Springs, Colorado (again, born and raised) this doesn't suprise me, however it does infuriate me. Becuase, as you pointed out, this will be a campaign that will draw liberal and even moderate dollars away from real issues, preventing us from making any actual improvements to ANYTHING in Colorado. Homeless? Who cares? Your kids' schools are overcrowded and falling apart? So what, it builds character. As long as we don't teach them about evolution, homosexuality, or challenge them to think. There's so much political manuevering that happens here just to keep the "other side" off balance that we seem to never make any progress.

I think about moving from this state every DAY. I just keep finding reasons to stay, like my job, my bills...

Yeeshy. The continual efforts of some people to make their religious agenda into law just makes me . . . tired.

Sounds great! Work on getting that passed in Ecuador, then.

I would say that trying to force legislation that is based on your beliefs does.

Depends on what the belief is in. If you are the type of Christian who believes strongly that homosexuals should be persecuted, Jews should be converted, birth control is evil. . .What?

Thanks to participatory democracy, they can start one right here!

Who would have thought that the same principles that allow states like California to make laws that are tailored to their citizens could be used to make laws tailored to citizens in religious states?

ZOMG Ron Paul 2008! States rights!

It's nearly time for another revolution.

Yeah, I mean, it's not like states can't pass laws that do an end-run around the Constitution, right?

Wait, what 14th Amendment? Who's this "Roe" person?

People who cannot legally drink alcohol and have no clue about life outside of a sorority house should not be trying to change an important and eternal document like a state's fucking CONSTITUTION.

I see these well-dressed, preppy-looking teenagers protesting outside the abortion clinic by my house and it infuriates me. I can just see their thought process: "Look at me, I'm a grown up! I have very important opinions! I've never experienced any hardship and don't know anything about the real world, but you should really listen to what I have to say about your body!"

*sighs* Why am I not surprised to Michigan on there?

I feel like I am sleeping already.

+1000.

I'm pretty sure Jesus would bitchslap these people. In fact, he'd probably break his hand from having to bitchslap so many people. He'd need 12 apostles of bitchslapping to really get the job done.

It was time for a revolution around 7 years ago...and just getting worse

This is a tangent:

I find the idea of deciding a fertilized egg has rights and might be considered "alive" morbidly ironic, when most stillborn infants, even full-term ones that die in the birthing process, receive no birth or death certificates.

Can't logic, reason, and medical knowledge ever enter into GOP anti-abortion legislative attempts?? Just once can they get away from trying to legislate creationism?

this is a very touchy subject...for all reasonable purposes, this bill shouldn't pass. Does it make exceptions to rape? incest? the morning-after pill? what makes a 3 week old baby less of a baby than an 8 month old baby? Define baby. Does "it" become a baby when it looks more like the final thing at 9 months? Or does it become a baby at 6 months? When does life begin? After it's first cry? Can anyone know?
How is a man or woman becoming sterile (on purpose) any different from using contraception? Both ways are preventing life from occurring. The morning after pill and abortion put an end to life that might otherwise exist. I do think it's terribly irresponsible to have more children than you can take care of-I know of several families that have 6-9 children because they don't believe in contraception; I don't even know what to think of the parents other than it's ridiculous reasoning to have that many children, especially when they can't afford it. I am sure that if contraception was made available to minors without their guardians' knowledge/consent, abortion rates would go down to a point where this wouldn't be a huge issue anymore. Then again there's always people out there that would just as soon get a couple abortions a year than bother with contraception. Btw, how do men know what women go through emotionally to carry a baby to term or to go through an abortion?