2008 Colorado Amendment 48
Colorado Amendment 48 was an overwhelmingly defeated initiative to amend the definition of a person to "any human being from the moment of fertilization".
Defining a person to be any human being from the moment of fertilization. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Against 80–90% 70–80% 60–70% 50–60%
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The initiative was proposed jointly by Kristine Burton and Michael Burton of the now-defunct organization, Colorado for Equal Rights.
This definition would have applied to all sections of Colorado law, thus giving a fetus the equal rights of life, liberty, and property as a fully developed, born person would.
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