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The Colorado Personhood Amendment Would Not Ban Hormonal Contraceptives

 

For the first time in United States history, the issue of personhood will be decided in the public forum by a constitutional amendment.  After almost 50 million babies killed since Roe v. Wade, it's about time!  The Personhood Amendment on the ballot in Colorado this November will read "the terms ‘person' or ‘persons' shall include any human being from the moment of fertilization."  The amendment states a scientific, indisputable fact that we have known well before Roe v. Wade, that human life begins at fertilization, when a father's sperm and mother's egg unite.  After that point, the being is a growing, maturing human person.  After fertilization, nothing makes us any more alive or any more human than the moment before.  If this amendment passes, it will, in effect, force the Colorado legislature and the Colorado justice system to treat the preborn like people and protect them from death by abortion.

The pro-abortion machine is in full swing with their "smoke and mirrors" campaign to obfuscate the real issues at stake.  NARAL Colorado's website scares us with frightening scenarios where unintended pregnancies skyrocket and back-alley abortion centers thrive because contraceptives would be banned under the amendment.  In a John Lofton interview with Toni Panetta, Deputy Director of NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado, the tactic of choice is to deceive, obfuscate, and fear-monger.[i]  She refused to deal with the point of contention in this debate.  When Mr. Lofton asked her when she thought life began, she refused to answer.  When he asked her, "If it were proven that human life begins at fertilization, would you be against aborting that human life?" she said that it was irrelevant and changed the subject.  If this amendment passes, Ms. Panetta warned us that contraceptives will be banned and women will suffer.  

The hesitance of pro-lifers to address contraception may cripple us in our ability to identify and expose their "smoke and mirrors" arguments to the public.  Pro-lifers must realize that something can be sin and yet not criminal.  It may be wrong for Christians and Catholics to take oral contraceptives for Scriptural reasons, and with the lingering question that hormonal contraceptives may cause abortions.[ii],[iii]  Those are the reasons that I refuse to prescribe oral contraceptives in my medical practice.  But I am reluctant to condemn those who do because I am not convinced that they cause abortions.  I think that this is an issue in which people can in good conscience disagree.

Many sincere pro-lifers have sincere ethical objections to hormonal contraception.  There is much scientific literature that claims one of the ways hormonal contraception functions is to thin the inner lining of the uterus to make it "hostile" to the fertilized egg should breakthrough ovulation occur, as it occasionally does.  If the prescribed hormonal contraceptive acts part of the time by preventing implantation of the fertilized embryo into the inner lining of the mother's uterus, it is in this instance acting as an abortion drug, not as a contraceptive.

However, it must be admitted that it is not proven that oral contraceptives cause abortions of embryos that are conceived through breakthrough ovulations.  It is an unproven theory.  There are strong arguments that oral contraceptives do not cause abortions of embryos conceived in breakthrough ovulations. 


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Elizabeth's Letter to the Editor About Missionaries to the Preborn Abortion Protest in Zanesville, Ohio

I want to personally thank all those who came to Zanesville on Aug. 7 to show the painful but powerful pictures of what abortion does to innocent American children.  I am sympathetic with the concern of the two mothers who wrote letters of outrage at the Maple Ave. display, but I couldn't help but wonder if they thought about the suffering of those helpless babies in the womb.  My young children saw the pictures as well and were not traumatized in the least.  To them it is simple - "Mommy, why would people do that to their own baby?" 
I heard another local mother who saw the display while riding in the car with her children say that it gave her a wonderful opportunity to speak to her children about the horror of abortion and the importance of abstinence. 
Do I like those bloody pictures being shown?  Of course not.  Oh, for the day when it will no longer be necessary!  But people had to come from around the nation to remind us what "choice" looks like, because the media has censored the preborn child from the abortion debate.  Notice that the Times Recorder did not even utter a word of the group's display, except letters in opposition to it!  You can't argue with the pictures can you?  The lies about the baby just being a "blob of tissue" crumble upon sight of those pictures. 
Do you remember seeing the pictures of the corpses of Nazi Holocaust victims and how outraged you were...not at the one showing you the picture...but at the ones who slaughtered those innocent Jews?  Where are our tears on behalf of these modern holocaust victims?
I am sorry Zanesville had to see those pictures, but not for the same reason as the outraged mothers who wrote letters to the editor last week.  I am sorry because my heart breaks for the 50 million innocent Americans who have died a cruel death because of our apathy and silence.  When something is so gruesome that we can't stand to look at it, perhaps we shouldn't be tolerating it.