A drive for a Personhood Amendment has been launched in Alaska.
The proposed amendment would call for recognition of all human beings from the biological beginning of their development. Chris Kurka, who is leading the campaign, talked with television station KTUU. "The state's responsibility is to protect our rights -- and the most fundamental of those rights is the right to life," he explains. "So what we're doing...is asking the people of the state to sign this initiative to get it on the ballot, and then to vote for it so that the unborn will be recognized as a person -- just like the rest of us." Planned Parenthood objects to the amendment, saying it could lead to scary things such as a woman who has a miscarriage being investigated on the chance that the mishap was really an abortion. Pro-life groups say the allegation is ludicrous. "You can never eliminate abortion completely in a fallen world," Kurka observes, "because people are always going to do evil things. But it brings to the forefront the issue of whether...the unborn child is a person or not." Personhood proponents must collect 30,000 signatures from Alaska voters for the amendment to qualify for the ballot. Similar drives are under way in Missouri, California, Colorado, Florida, Montana, Michigan, and Nevada.
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