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Origins of Personhood: The moral precedent of conception, religion and the...

The question of when life begins is an incredibly complex one with enormous legal and ethical ramifications for contraception, abortion, in vitro fertilization, embryonic...

Origins of Personhood: Using ‘States Rights’ to Restrict Abortion

The first in a series of reports exploring the ramifications of this controversial state ballot measure. Hard-line, socially conservative activists are gearing up to enact...

Tweeting the ‘Egg as a Person’ Petition Press Conference

Join Colorado Confidential as we post live updates called "tweets" via the microblogging tool, Twitter.com, from the Human Life Amendment press conference at the...

War of Eggs and Politics Goes Underground for Schaffer, Abortion Foes

Hard-line anti-abortion forces in Colorado say they are backing off their fiery criticism of conservative U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer for not supporting a...

Antiabortion Ballot Proponents Call Out Conservative Wimps

Proponents of the controversial "egg as a person" initiative have just one month left to submit petitions to the Colorado secretary of state to...

Allard, Salazar Approve Abortion-Funding Ban at American Indian Clinics

Allegations of racism are being raised about an amendment to a new 10-year funding bill for the Indian Health Service that supersedes laws for...

Huckabee ‘Eggs’ On Social Conservatives in Colorado

COMMENTARY GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee endorsed Colorado's "egg as a person" state ballot measure on Monday, but for whose benefit -- Zygote Americans or...

Anti-Abortion Ballot Measure Draws Foes, Advocates Inside Conservative Circles

The 35-year battle to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision is once again firmly planted in women's wombs. This time, instead of...

“Egg As Person” Is Red Meat With Few Calories

The ballot initiative defining a fertilized egg as a person for purposes of certain provisions of the Colorado Constitution that the Colorado Supreme Court...

Abortion Rates Unaffected by Laws, Abstinence Push

A new international study calls into question the argument that outlawing abortions and focusing on abstinence education deters women from terminating pregnancies. Is the...
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