Dear Editors: Bill Grant’s timely column – “Time for Personhood Colorado to recognize its cause is lost” – exposes “personhood” proponents for what they are: superficially noble but misguided absolutists seeking to exploit public sympathy for partisan political gain. Heather Surovik’s “Brady Project” has already achieved a laudable objective – last year’s “Crimes Against Pregnant Women Act” – which, by criminalizing both reckless and/or negligent acts causing death or injury to a “pre-born”, in effect grants the same civil right to sue for wrongful death and/or injury as any “person” (albeit, exercised by a survivor). Contrary to Judeo-Christian tradition, the “personhood” movement rests on the fallacious moral premise that “every human life is sacred” – which applies an overly individualized interpretation, as opposed to the more collective: “all human life is sacred”. By countenancing aggressive wars and capital punishment for dozens of offenses, the Old Testament teaches that no particular human life is really “sacred”, because compliance with “God’s Law” was deemed vital to the survival of the “Chosen People” – as a group. The New Testament makes no mention of the “pre-born”, but its Sermon on the Mount teaches compassion for the already-born – because promoting the “common good” is vital to the perpetuation of the human species. “Personhood” advocates would subordinate the fundamental human and constitutional rights of already-born women to the dubious “rights” of non-viable fetuses – with total disregard for the practical consequences. Not only would they cavalierly accelerate the proliferation of human misery attendant to over-population – beginning with unwanted children -- but they would mindlessly spend billions on a labyrinth of legal enforcement mechanisms, better spent on aiding the neediest already among us. The real reason for such “personhood” initiatives is to promote voter turnout in 2014 by religious zealots -- who seek to impose their version of “sharia law” on the rest of us. Bill Hugenberg
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 22:07:13 +0000
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