Personhood
Colorado Announces Successful Signature Campaign
Personhood Colorado submitted signatures to the Secretary of State's
office Friday for the Colorado Personhood Amendment. The signatures
submitted totaled 79,817, although only 76,047 were required. All
signatures are pending validation by the Colorado Secretary of State's
office.
"We are thrilled with these results. These signatures represent
thousands of hours of hard work," remarked Gualberto Garcia-Jones,
co-sponsor of the amendment. "All of our volunteers are 100% committed
to seeing that the dignity and personhood of preborn babies is
recognized in Colorado, and it shows."
The proposed amendment states, in part, that "the term 'person' shall
apply to every human being from the beginning of the biological
development of that human being."
The signature campaign included hundreds of churches, as well as over
1,000 petition circulators, and other volunteers. All signatures
submitted were gathered by volunteers, and the campaign was 100%
volunteer-run, with no paid petitioners or staff.
"Colorado is paving the way for personhood," commented Keith Mason,
co-founder of Personhood USA. "Hundreds of thousands of Americans are
catching the vision of personhood, and we expect that several other
states will soon follow Colorado in putting personhood on the ballot."
Once the signatures are verified by the Colorado Secretary of State,
the amendment will be placed on the 2010 ballot and put to a vote.
"Our grassroots, volunteer campaign will continue to be a success,
because we are working towards a very worthy cause -- protecting the
lives of innocent Colorado citizens," Garcia-Jones continued. "The
79,817 signatures are an indicator that the people of Colorado are
determined to protect innocent life; we will not rest until every child
is protected by love and by law."
A similar amendment sponsored by Colorado for Equal Rights was defeated
on the November 2008 ballot. Since Colorado's first attempt,
personhood movements have sprung up in several states, including
Kansas, Montana, Florida, Nevada, Alaska, and Mississippi.
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