Anti-Choice Republican Candidates to Attend "Personhood" Forum
The "personhood amendment," granting legal rights to human embryos, might have seemed to be a political nonstarter after voters in Mississippi, arguably the most conservative and anti-abortion state in the nation, rejected such a proposal last month. But the idea has not faded in the Republican primaries.
Oh, no, it has not.
Next Tuesday, December 27, Republican presidential aspirants Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum will attend a special radio forum hosted by Personhood USA, the extreme anti-choice group pushing these "personhood" measures nationwide.
Memo to candidates: when 58 percent of voters in a state that has one of the worst grades on choice think something's too extreme, it's probably too extreme.
Speaking of 58 percent, that's also the percent of Virginians who oppose a proposed "personhood" bill that anti-choice lawmakers in the Old Dominion have made the first new bill of the opening legislative session.
But it looks like extreme isn't taking a break for the holidays.
P.S. And, if you're around on December 27, please consult our website for info on the presidential candidates.
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The concept of personhood has a long philosophical and spiritual tradition that is very distinct from today's political gamesmanship. I touched on this recently in an Huffington Post article titled, "What is a Person?" The fetal personhood arguments are not going away, and I think we ignore them at our own peril. In the fields of philosophy, psychology and political science, and in the arts, there is lots of material available to engage this conversation and to win it. Personhood has always hinged on consciousness--the ability to think and feel, to experience pleasure and pain, to love and be loved.
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