I generally try to avoid hot button topics like abortion. Really, I do. By and large, abortions are difficult, if not impossible, to justify. By the same token, there is little benefit to anyone n forcing a mother to carry an unwanted fetus to term.

This year, Colorado has an initiative, “Amendment 48,” to make a fertilized embryo a legal “person” under the Colorado constitution. This amendment, if passed, would provide at conception an undifferentiated bundle of cells wth the full rights of citizenship and “due process” due to any person.

Yes, any potential fetus could be another Martin Luther King or Abraham Lincoln. However, it could also be Ted Bundy, Adolf Hitler, or Josef Stalin. It’s merely a potential person.

Forcing women to be slaves to an accident of biology is offensive in the extreme. Forcing women to risk death is as equally offensive as abortion, if not moreso. An undifferentiated bundle of cells should in no way be considered as having more rights than a living, breathing, independently existing human being.

And I personally don’t care what you think your god has to say on the subject—that’s between you and your god.