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Personhood editorial full of drivel

After reading Amendment 67 and conferring with legal counsel, I can say the Herald’s July 24 editorial concerning the amendment was both misleading and full of falsities. Rarely do the left and the truth intersect. The amendment is only concerned with crimes committed against women who are pregnant, with a resulting miscarriage or a required abortion, such as assault, or as in Heather Surovik’s case, an auto accident caused by a drunken driver. The amendment makes absolutely no reference to any of the 20 approved contraceptives or legal abortion, period! If a woman gives her consent to either of these – that is she chooses to use any contraceptive or undergo an abortion – the amendment does not apply, period! Perhaps what it does that might make the Herald uncomfortable, is to complicate and conflict with the secular progressives rationalized narrative on “personhood.” At the exact moment of conception, human DNA is present and the living being starts to produce cells with distinct genes to create all the different parts of the body.

Later, the editorial spews some drivel about interfering with women’s health, which I assume meant pregnancy. News flash! Pregnancy is a natural occurrence; if it were an illness and treated as such, our species would be dying out. (It only became a “health” issue in 2012, used to distract from Democrats’ failures.) Fortunately, pregnancy is optional. There are 20 sure-fire ways to prevent it, which can be bought, received at no charge at Planned Parenthood or at a federal office. If these were to fail, then legal abortion is an option. Abortion is essentially unfettered in Colorado.

Then the editorial asks if Amendment 67 is necessary with House Bill 1154. Well, that is subjective. House speaker Mark Ferrandino didn’t think Jessica’s Law was necessary, but many child rapists were plea bargaining to get little or no prison time. Because of public pressure, aided by Bill O’Reilly, finally, a version was passed. Currently, if a woman is assaulted and her unborn baby dies, the assailant will not be charged with murder.

Robert Goodrich

Bayfield



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