“Personhood” Amendment
I attended a Colorado Amendment 62 Personhood meeting in Greeley, Colorado. This is a statewide push to make abortion illegal. The literature points to the Biblical passage, Jeremiah 1:5, which quotes God saying: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.” If you’re Christian, this would seem, oh, a no brainer when it comes to abortion being right or wrong. At the meeting, I talked to Keith Mason who is the president of Personhood USA. He said that while Colorado is the first state pushing for an amendment, the Personhood movement has been established, in varying degrees, in 40 states now. The featured speaker at the meeting was Pastor Walter Hoye from Oakland, California. (He had recently been given a 30-day jail sentence for sidewalk counseling in front of an abortion clinic there.) Pastor Hoye is African American. He said like slaves were considered property then, the unborn baby is considered property now. He then shared a poignant story about the Klu Klux Klan surrounding his home in the south as a youth. They then set the home ablaze, with his family inside. Half of his family died. No one was prosecuted. And it’s the same now. That is, the killing of these unborn babies goes on, and on – and no one is prosecuted.
