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[b]I don't see this passing in any way[/b] but the fact that the Personhood movement is in VA and the fact that elected officials have humored it to this point greatly disturbs me.  [/quote]

I disagree with the PP. There is indeed a good chance that this will pass. It has already passed the VA House and the Senate is currently tied on the issue. GOP Governor McDonnell has previously indicated that he would sign this bill.

Peoples -- This Amendment might actually pass.

That this is a VA Constitutional Amendment and not a Bill is important. It will be very difficult to repeal later. This means that when a sperm and egg meet, personhood rights attach. IUDs, Plan B, abortions, aspirins between the legs, what have you, will be threatened once the U.S. Supreme Court allows for this. Since 1965, the Supreme Court (in Griswold?) stated that it is unconstitutional to interfere with contraception, and then there was Roe v. Wade.  If these decisions are ever overturned, the VA Personhood Amendment would spring into effect for these purposes, I presume basically banning them, or at least making this very difficult.

This is taking us back, WAY back in time. I cannot in my right mind equate the right of "personhood" to a zygote. Just can't.  If it is between the life of a wife and a gamete, whose interests weigh out?  This personhood amendment suggests it would be person against person. This is truly scary, folks.  IUDs that prevent implantation would = murder.

Apparently such birth control is equated to a "murder of convenience" in the eyes of ultra-right conservatives.

Well, I'm no fan of the over-sexualization of our culture, but this is so anti-sex, anti-common sense and anti-birth control, anti-family planning, it is like  breathtaking.

Time to wake up!  I just did.
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