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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 05:36 PM
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Pro-life campaigner: Term ‘fertilized egg’ is like using ‘N-word’

Pro-life campaigner: Term ‘fertilized egg’ is like using ‘N-word’

By Daniel Tencer
Sunday, September 26th, 2010 -- 2:55 pm

Personhood amendment' campaigners had previously compared embryos to slaves

Using the term "fertilized egg" is "the same thing as using the N-word," says the pro-life minister behind a Colorado campaign to have fertilized eggs declared legal persons.

Colorado's Amendment 62, which will appear on the ballot this November, is the second attempt by pro-life groups in the state to have fertilized eggs declared legal persons. The campaign is seen as a direct challenge to pro-choice rights, as a declaration that fertilized eggs are persons would potentially make any case of abortion a homicide.

At a rally in Colorado Springs last week, Keith Mason, the head of Personhood USA, compared the struggle for a "personhood amendment" to the struggles for equal rights for women and African Americans.

“Amendment 62 gives the rights of a person to every human being, no matter their age, their race, their sex,” Mason said, as quoted at KRDO Channel 13.

more:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/fertilized-egg-like-using-nword/
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 05:44 PM
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1. These people are crazy.
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izquierdista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 05:45 PM
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2. How to get them to drop it like a hot potato
Tell them that the fertilized egg would be entitled to health care....and their taxes would pay for it.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 05:52 PM
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3. cool.... i can get my medicare 9 months earlier!
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 05:54 PM
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4. Another pearl from the Humpty-Dumpty Party.
:crazy:
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 05:54 PM
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5. And 'pro-life' is a dishonest euphemism like 'pre-owned.'
Fie on these disgusting hypocrites.
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COLGATE4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 06:01 PM
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6. I'm for equal rights for spermatazoids.
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whoneedstickets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 06:04 PM
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7. All fertility clinics charged with child abuse?
Or can I store my kids in the freezer too?
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 06:04 PM
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8. Wow
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 06:35 PM
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9. What about spontaneous abortion?
Is that man-slaughter? Wrongful death?
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