Personhood now has a 0-5 win-loss record in elections

Rss@dailykos.com (laura Clawson)
Wednesday, November 05, 2014, 11:59 am
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Voters rejected personhood measures in Colorado and North Dakota Tuesday night, doing so for the third time in Colorado. In fact, these extreme anti-abortion measures, which put fetuses above women, have accumulated a serious record of rejection:
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Before this year's failed initiative, Colorado voters rejected two other personhood ballot initiatives, once in 2008 and again in 2010. In both years, the measures failed by double-digit margins.

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Mississippi voted on a personhood ballot initiative in 2012. It failed, too, with more than 55 percent opposing the amendment. Legislators have introduced personhood bills in Oklahoma and Virginia but neither passed.

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But while personhood has never had an actual life as a law, it's likely to keep rising out of the grave as a zombie, lurching around chasing us on rotten legs. That's because there are a few dedicated extremists who will keep dedicating their lives to this, no matter how soundly their cause is rejected by voters who don't want to see all abortion, in vitro fertilization, and some forms of birth control criminalized. So be ready to see a similar measure resurface in at least one state over the next election cycle or two.

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