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Lawsuit filed to block “personhood” initiative

That's the initiative that would ban abortion and impose restrictions on end-of-life decisions. The legal docs are posted at right.

Plaintiffs include longtime local writer Emmily Bristol, who has been married to her high school sweetheart for 12 years and is 12 weeks pregnant.

“Supporters of the so-called ‘Personhood Initiative’ intend this provision to eliminate a woman’s right to make personal, private health care decisions,” said Bristol. “We need to preserve a woman’s right to make decisions about her reproductive health with her doctor and family without governmental interference.”

“The Initiative is so broad, it could impact literally thousands of laws,” said Maggie McLetchie, one of the attorneys for plaintiffs. “If proponents have their way, it would invite lawyers and the courts to reinterpret every Nevada law and regulation that contains the word “person,” clogging up the court system at the expense of Nevada taxpayers.”

Discussion: 5 comments so far...

  1. "Pro-Life" is code for Nazism. More racist than Hitler. The GOP is the 4th Reich. AWOL-MIA: WASP "tea-baggers" fighting for the thousands of COLORED babies killed and mass murdered by the GOP in Iraq-NAM. IF Obama had any STONES, he would be waving a personhood flag, stating he intends to HANG Boy George, Blair, Lott, Cheney, Hastert, Tenet, Sharon, Olmert, Delay, McConnell, and Boehner, for their Iraq-NAm war crimes and crimes agaisnt humanity. Iraq-NAM is all about oil pilfering, Judeo-WASP crusade, GOP "grin and griP" sessions, and war-time profiteering for Cheney, GE-NBC, Blackwater, and Halliburton.

    7/4/76, Richard Pryor, "today we are celebrating 200 years of the white man, "kick'n-a$$". For the past 400 years. Rich American WASP have been exterminating, BBQing, and vaporizing colored folks. To-date, they've bagged more than 10 million (Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Iraqis, Kurds, Lebanese, Vietnamese, Afghans, etc.). When will WASP get thier fill? WASP Americans enslaving of Blacks, gave rise to murderous dictators like Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Amin, Olmert, Sharon, etc.

    Sincerely,

    Your basic Field-Negro

  2. Dingo;
    Heavy, man.

  3. I predicted this, Why don't they get Carrie Prejean to do some endorsements for this. I only made one sex tape when I was 17, is now 8 tape made 2 years ago.

  4. Back in the 70's we had a friend named Donna who got pregnant by a sailor on a one night stand. She was 17. She tried to hide the pregnancy from her Irish Catholic parents, but they found out, and kicked her out of the house. We tried to find an abortion provider, but back then, only one state had it, and it was far away. So Donna had the kid, gave it up for adoption, and life went on. But no, it's never that easy. 10 years later, Donna, a married mother of 2, decided to find her first child. We begged her not to do it, but she did. The result? Finding a 12 year old developmentally damaged child who wanted to have nothing to do with her real mother.

    You Redneck Catholic right to lifers are a disgrace. Just give the kid up for adoption. Right? OK, Catholic Church, why don't you adopt some children? No, this might bring too much temptation to your legions of molesters.

    Oh, I asked a former Nun friend of mine why the Church won't let priests marry. She answered "Simple, they don't want to have to support the children of their straight priests". Gee, they really care about the children. Not...

  5. Personhood includes fetus, fertilized eggs and sixty-seven year-old granmas. What are they trying to do by lumping every mass of organic matter of human origin into one term???

    They are trying to slap some holy water on it and say "No messin' with it. It's God!"

    We got enough of a problem as it is now. #1 in teen pregnancies in the US because #50 in education,#50 in new jobs, #50 in worthless governor, #50 in what we spend on ourselves with tax base, #49 in literacy. Let's hear it for Mississippi!!! Ya'll come now you heah!

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