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Huckabee endorses fertilized eggs measure

The Rocky

Published February 26, 2008 at 7:11 a.m.
Updated February 26, 2008 at 7:11 a.m.

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A proposed ballot measure that would define personhood as a fertilized egg picked up the endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister.

In a statement Monday, Huckabee said the amendment proposed by 20-year-old Kristi Burton and her group, Colorado for Equal Rights, would send a clear message that every human life has value.

Burton called Huckabee's endorsement "an amazing boost" to their petition gathering efforts. Supporters must collect signatures of about 76,000 registered voters for the measure to appear on the ballot in November.

If passed, the measure would lay the legal foundation for making abortion illegal in the state.

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  • February 26, 2008

    8:33 a.m.

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    Bob299 writes:

    This measure is horrific.

    In fertility treatments, multiple eggs are typically fertilized and then only several are implanted. So, if a couple is able to fertilize 10 eggs, but only implant three - what are they going to do with the remaining 7? Are they then expected go back at $15K to $20 a pop and implant them? Just leave the embryos frozen forever? How many women could survive carrying to term and giving birth to 10 children?

    At 20, Kristi Burton doesn't even know what she's dealing with or how she will affect people's lives. I wish her a nice round of fertility treatments as a human science experiment before she starts legalizing people's lives.

  • February 26, 2008

    9:27 a.m.

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    rickg19611 writes:

    Bob, you apparently lack the ability to understand how the initiative process works. Kristi is not "legalizing people's lives". Only an idiot would fail to realize that it is the VOTERS who will decide whether to pass the initiative or not. Guess that shows the value of your other points.

    Freethought, so you claim that "men stop making laws against women". How will that work? Laws only apply to men? That should make for some interesting anarchy. But then you don't sound wise enough to understand what you're advocating on that point, so the rest of your opinion is just as inept.

  • February 26, 2008

    9:27 a.m.

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    JustSayin writes:

    Damn, I think I saw a spot in my over-easy's this morning - am I going to hell?

  • February 26, 2008

    9:38 a.m.

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    Spencer writes:

    Stupid is as stupid does.

  • February 26, 2008

    9:45 a.m.

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    fleetmack writes:

    "every human life has value"

    Then why is Huckabee for the death penalty?

  • February 26, 2008

    10:20 a.m.

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    jvb writes:

    Fact Huck. The F word to Huck is as bad as the E word to him: Evolution. The topic: Just like Kristi Burton brings the fact pattern to the people; the ACLU brings the fact pattern to the Bench; therefore, the messenger should not suffer death since it is the arbiter who creates the conclusion. Please Jesus: Help GWM understand what I am saying so he doesn't flog me. I will vote against Kristi's snake oil nonsense.

  • February 26, 2008

    10:29 a.m.

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    bookwerm writes:

    A fertilized Egg is hardly human life.. it has the potential to be human life, MAYBE, but this is just a stupid stupid law. When they protect the human life that already is up walking around on Earth with National Health Care, so every kid in America is covered at least, then they would be doing something worthwhile.. but protecting "human life" that isn't, letting it get born, and THEN denying care? THAT is inhumane. And why is human life any more sacred than an elephants life? Because God said so? The bible is a bunch of made up gobbleteegack that nuts literally believe in.

  • February 26, 2008

    10:30 a.m.

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    timeandagain writes:

    Why does anyone care what Huckabee says? He LOST!!!! Go back to Arkansas you hillbilly!

  • February 26, 2008

    11:05 a.m.

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    jacka writes:

    What fleetmack says ... makes ya say hummmmm.

    Huckabee likes the death penalty b/c it gives government a bigger role. A real conservative would be against the death penalty and for life w/o parole. It is more cost effective and makes government smaller.

    Let child rapists and woman killers fight it out in general population while they farm for their food or make license plates - it is cheaper that way.

  • February 26, 2008

    11:12 a.m.

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    FREEDOM_FIGHTER writes:

    PRO LIFE OR NOT WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER AS AMERICANS TO LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE HERE...THESE ELITIST POLITICIANS SEEM TO BE UNITING TO DISTRACT US FROM AN ISSUE THAT WILL TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS TO EVEN DISCUSS ABORTION!!! THIS IS MAJOR! I AM TALKING ABOUT THE NEW WORLD ORDER, BEGINNING WITH NAFTA (BEGAN THIS MONTH). WE NEED TO UNITE AS NEVER BEFORE...WHAT THEY PROPOSE WILL TAKE AWAY OUR SOVREIGN STATE AND UNITE US WITH CANADA AND MEXICO, EVENTUALLY, WORLD ORDER ...BYE BYE AMERICA...HELLO GOVERNMENT RULE...GUESS WHO MAKES THE DECISIONS FOR TEXAS LANDOWNERS AS WE SPEAK !!!....IT'S TIME TO RESEARCH NAFTA ON WIKIPEDIA, LOOK AT THE NEW FLAG THE HAVE DESIGNED FOR US (SOME "LOGO"!!!) IT IS EERIE, ORWELLIAN STUFF ! PLEASE RESEARCH THE CANDIDATES ON WIKIPEDIA AND DON'T LISTEN TO THIER POLITICS OR POPULARITY TO CHOOSE.. FIND OUT WHO HAS LINKS WITH MR RICHARD HAAS (I CALL HIM THE REAL PRESIDENT OF US, SINCE HE ORCHASTRATES THE WHOLE THING). AND, YES, YOU HAD BETTER SHOUT IN UNISON ABOUT: NO NAFTA! NO NAFTA! NO TO NAFTA !!! THIS IS BAD...THIS IS CRUCIAL .....HERE IS RECENT QUOTE POSTED A FEW HOURS AGO: "NAFTA" is unpopular in Ohio, which has lost blue-collar jobs to other countries. The treaty was signed by President George H.W. Bush in 1992; the legislation to implement it was signed by President Clinton in 1993.

    Hillary Clinton said Obama's ads unfairly portrayed her as a supporter of the agreement which she says she is working to change. Over the weekend, Obama told an Ohio audience: "She was saying great things about NAFTA until she started running for president."

    Labor leaders who said they had personal experience negotiating with Bill Clinton's administration on NAFTA backed Obama - accusing Hillary Clinton's campaign of likewise distorting Obama's record on NAFTA in her mailings.

    Saying President Clinton personally forced NAFTA through Congress using all the political capital he could muster, UNITE Here General President Bruce Raynor added, "I refuse to believe that after all the damage is done that he should be permitted to walk away. And he is a part of this campaign, if everyone hadn't noticed."

    State Rep. Tracey Heard, a Columbus Democrat, said, "Clearly, she's trying to campaign on her husband's experience, and if she's going to claim it, she's going to have to claim it all, good and bad."
    RUFFLE THIER FEATHERS, COPY PICTURES OF THIER NEW FLAG DESIGN FROM WIKIPEDIA AND CIRCULATE IT...THIS "TREATY" IS DEEP...DON'T BE DECIEVED...IF YOU LOVE AMERICA CUT AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE AND SPREAD THE WORD TO TEXANS AND OHIO (SOON TO VOTE) DON'T VOTE UNTIL YOU KNOW! SEE VIDEOS OF SENATORS NEWSPERSONS ON YOU TUBE. DON'T LET THE CANDIDATES KEEP US IN THE DARK ANY LONGER!

  • February 26, 2008

    11:35 a.m.

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    JustSayin writes:

    ^ Time for the tin foil hats again, it seems....

  • February 26, 2008

    12:13 p.m.

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    HolierThanThou writes:

    We spent billions fighting the Taliban only to have the Republicans nominate one for president?

  • February 26, 2008

    12:19 p.m.

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    junglegymco writes:

    Ah, Hucksterbee - What a guy. To this day he still wants to quarantine people with HIV, believes that women should be obedient to their men and now thinks that life begins when HE says it does. But he still wants to kill people, to show people that killing people is bad. And he doesn't want to support the babies lives with any support once they're born into abject poverty. To paraphrase Barney Frank, for Hucksterbee, life begins at conception and ends at birth . . .

    Vote Hucksterbee for Theocrat in '08! Kiss your Freedoms goodbye!

  • February 26, 2008

    12:33 p.m.

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    gwats writes:

    Why, for any reason, does the State make any laws about the reproductive process when we can barely get through the day 'outside' the womb? Leave reproductive decisions to consenting adults and get the State out of the bedroom. At some point, you get to trust individuals to lead their own lives.

  • February 26, 2008

    12:37 p.m.

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    Lonestar writes:

    The only freedom you libs care about is the freedom to kill your own children. One comment I do agree with out of the sad commentary posted for this story is that bookwerm's life is probably worth less than an elephant's life.

  • February 26, 2008

    1:15 p.m.

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    timeandagain writes:

    Big_D: That is because Republicans are intelligent enough to understand the Big_PICTURE and not step on each other's candidacies. While admittedly stupid about issues like this, Republicans get out of the way for the sake of the party and its nominee. Democrats are to stupid and egocentric to do that...

  • February 26, 2008

    1:36 p.m.

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    peterpi writes:

    Bob299 at 8:33,
    The implications of this ballot initiative keep getting worse and worse. I hadn't thought about about the IVF implications. If a woman undergoes IVF and succeeds in having a baby, and she and her partner ask that the remaining embryos be destroyed, then if this idiotic initiative passes, the couple could be charged with murder. If an embryo is implanted, but later the woman suffers a miscarriage, a zealous prosecutor could charge her with negligent homicide.
    Plus, I wish the media would stop talking about Kristi Burton. She may be 20 years old, and therefore a free-acting sovereign adult in our society, but she's being used by other groups, and hasn't thought out the implications of her over-simplistic ideology. I'll keep saying it until after election day: If opponents of abortion want to outlaw abortion, they should put a straightforward measure on the ballot, not a sly end run with diabolical consequences. But they know such a direct approach would be shot down at the polls.

  • February 26, 2008

    1:37 p.m.

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    wow writes:

    What else could one expect from Mr. Huckabee? It's almost admirable, the way some people can throw science, common sense, reason and liberty out the window to support thier ideology. I won't worry much though...I think he's one of those guys who believes dinosaurs pulled plows for our ancestors. If any thing, he might make the whole stupid proposal sound less credible.

  • February 26, 2008

    2:22 p.m.

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    mrfxx writes:

    Does this mean that both Mr. Huckabee & the child who came up with the idea for the "personhood begins at fertilization amendment" are both going to drop out of church, since God is the biggest abortionist of all? Depending on age & health of mother, the spontaneous abortion rate (aka miscarriage) is 15-50%.

    I also agree with the folks who mention those pesky "spare" fertilized embryos - let's fertilize Kristy (and any women who agree with her, along with the women in the lives of men who agree with her) until they are all used up - then ban that procedure. After all, if this amendment passes, and all the fertilized eggs turn into babies, there will be quite a few babies up for adoption - not to mention the children already waiting to be adopted in this country.

  • February 26, 2008

    2:28 p.m.

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    FREEDOM_FIGHTER writes:

    Posted by FREEDOM_FIGHTER on February 26, 2008 at 11:12 a.m. (Suggest removal)
    PRO LIFE OR NOT WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER AS AMERICANS TO LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE HERE...THESE ELITIST POLITICIANS SEEM TO BE UNITING TO DISTRACT US FROM AN ISSUE THAT WILL TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS TO EVEN DISCUSS ABORTION!!! THIS IS MAJOR! I AM TALKING ABOUT THE NEW WORLD ORDER, BEGINNING WITH NAFTA (BEGAN THIS MONTH). WE NEED TO UNITE AS NEVER BEFORE...WHAT THEY PROPOSE WILL TAKE AWAY OUR SOVREIGN STATE AND UNITE US WITH CANADA AND MEXICO, EVENTUALLY, WORLD ORDER ...BYE BYE AMERICA...HELLO GOVERNMENT RULE...GUESS WHO MAKES THE DECISIONS FOR TEXAS LANDOWNERS AS WE SPEAK !!!....IT'S TIME TO RESEARCH NAFTA ON WIKIPEDIA, LOOK AT THE NEW FLAG THE HAVE DESIGNED FOR US (SOME "LOGO"!!!) IT IS EERIE, ORWELLIAN STUFF ! PLEASE RESEARCH THE CANDIDATES ON WIKIPEDIA AND DON'T LISTEN TO THIER POLITICS OR POPULARITY TO CHOOSE.. FIND OUT WHO HAS LINKS WITH MR RICHARD HAAS (I CALL HIM THE REAL PRESIDENT OF US, SINCE HE ORCHASTRATES THE WHOLE THING). AND, YES, YOU HAD BETTER SHOUT IN UNISON ABOUT: NO NAFTA! NO NAFTA! NO TO NAFTA !!! THIS IS BAD...THIS IS CRUCIAL .....HERE IS RECENT QUOTE POSTED A FEW HOURS AGO: "NAFTA" is unpopular in Ohio, which has lost blue-collar jobs to other countries. The treaty was signed by President George H.W. Bush in 1992; the legislation to implement it was signed by President Clinton in 1993.

    Hillary Clinton said Obama's ads unfairly portrayed her as a supporter of the agreement which she says she is working to change. Over the weekend, Obama told an Ohio audience: "She was saying great things about NAFTA until she started running for president."

    Labor leaders who said they had personal experience negotiating with Bill Clinton's administration on NAFTA backed Obama - accusing Hillary Clinton's campaign of likewise distorting Obama's record on NAFTA in her mailings.

    Saying President Clinton personally forced NAFTA through Congress using all the political capital he could muster, UNITE Here General President Bruce Raynor added, "I refuse to believe that after all the damage is done that he should be permitted to walk away. And he is a part of this campaign, if everyone hadn't noticed."

    State Rep. Tracey Heard, a Columbus Democrat, said, "Clearly, she's trying to campaign on her husband's experience, and if she's going to claim it, she's going to have to claim it all, good and bad."
    RUFFLE THIER FEATHERS, COPY PICTURES OF THIER NEW FLAG DESIGN FROM WIKIPEDIA AND CIRCULATE IT...THIS "TREATY" IS DEEP...DON'T BE DECIEVED...IF YOU LOVE AMERICA CUT AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE AND SPREAD THE WORD TO TEXANS AND OHIO (SOON TO VOTE) DON'T VOTE UNTIL YOU KNOW! SEE VIDEOS OF SENATORS NEWSPERSONS ON YOU TUBE. DON'T LET THE CANDIDATES KEEP US IN THE DARK ANY LONGER!

  • February 26, 2008

    2:55 p.m.

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    timeandagain writes:

    nobodyman -

    did I say anything about Nader (or Perot)? I am talking about the Democratic bloodbath that will ensue when Hillbillary Clinton doesn't get out of the way after Obama wins in Texas and Ohio.

    so, to me, your comment sounds pretty ignorant.

  • February 26, 2008

    4:25 p.m.

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    Devil_Dog writes:

    Wait till the Demigods riot in the streets if Billary uses the stupid/delegets to steal the nomination after Obama wins the popular vote.

    go Liberals eat your own, kill your own, all for YOUR freedom and noone else's, just think of yourself, not your party, not society, not you children it's ALL about YOU!

  • February 26, 2008

    10:13 p.m.

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    timeandagain writes:

    nobodyman-

    i am beginning to understand the full value of your username. so, this article has to do with "vote siphoning". my bad. you clearly have a better grip on the "topic" than I do...i must have been reading it wrong.

    "way to go" and great response!

    best of luck in the future!

    by the way, i ordered my Big Mac WITH cheese!

  • February 27, 2008

    9:05 a.m.

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    gglaze writes:

    Life begins at implantation. The fertilized cell needs a way to support itself to reach it's potential of a human being. Otherwise it is little different than any other cell in our bodies.
    Neither Birth control pills nor IUD's reliably prevent fertilization but they do produce an environment within the uterus that is hostile to implantation and therefore does not allow conception to take place.