National 'Personhood' Backers Barnstorm Montana With One Big Exception
RH Reality Check By Wendy Norris Three major players in the absolutist anti-choice movement headed to Big Sky Country last weekend to push a second attempt at a state ballot measure to ban abortion without exception. But the confab is also as noteworthy for the obvious absence of a prominent group in the egg-as-a-person campaign. The so-called "personhood" law is the latest gimmick by anti-abortion activists to overturn Roe v Wade by focusing on zygotes' due process and equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment. This time, however, advocates are tweaking the ballot language and dropping the controversial "life begins at conception" argument for the more amorphous "at the beginning of biological development" in order to rally for fertilized eggs, clones and in-vitro embryos.
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