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Looking at the Implications of Colorado's Proposed Anti-Choice Amendment

By Pamela White
Boulder Weekly | August 4, 2008
If voters pass Amendment 48 in November, the Colorado Constitution will be changed so that even a pronuclear embryo -- a single-celled, newly fertilized human egg -- will have the same rights and protections as a fully developed, living, breathing human being. The so-called "Personhood Amendment," an initiative placed on the ballot by anti-abortion extremists, would impact not only abortion, experts say, but also a broad range of issues pertaining to women's health from access to contraception to infertility treatment to the flexibility doctors have in treating pregnant women.
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Tags: religion, Colorado, ballot initiatives, Abortion, reproductive rights, women's issues, Health & Science, sex & reproductive issues, Amendment 48, embryos

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