June 20, 2007 04:20 PM UTC

Abortion Ballot Initiative to Wedge Up 2008?

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• by: Colorado Pols

As the Rocky Mountain News reports:

An anti-abortion group has filed paperwork with the state of Colorado proposing a state constitutional amendment that would define a person as “any human being from the moment of fertilization.”

Proponent Mark Meuser, of Colorado for Equal Rights, based in Peyton, said the amendment could be used as a stepping stone to challenge abortion in Colorado.

“This language defines what a person is,” he said. “If it challenges (the Roe v. Wade decision that guarantees a woman’s right to an abortion), that will be weighed, and it’ll be up to the courts to decide at that level.”

Republicans know that it’s much easier to get out the vote when the consequence of not voting can be represented as burning in hell for all eternity. It’s a time-honored strategy. If this makes the ballot it will definitely mobilize religious conservative voters, who also reliably vote the straight Republican ticket.