Amendment 48 States: “Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution defining the term ‘person’ to include any human being from the moment of fertilization as ‘person’ is used in those provisions of the Colorado constitution relating to inalienable rights, equality of justice, and due process of law?”

The unborn are not protected by our laws due to a legal sleight of hand that declares the unborn “non-persons.” Our courts have done a similar thing in the past, declaring blacks as “non-persons.”

In a recent column in The Daily Sentinel, Kathleen  Parker writes, “From American medicine’s most  prominent human embryology text, ‘The Developing Human’:  ‘Human development begins at  fertilization when the male gamete or sperm (spermatozoon) unites with a  female gamete or oocyte (ovum) to produce a single cell — zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marks the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.’  ”

The great Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was hanged by the Nazis in 1943, wrote: “Destruction of the embryo in the mother’s womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed on this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.”

Jesus says that what we do to the least one of us we do to Him. Surely the unborn are the least of the least.

If “enlighten thinking” can justify that a mother alone has the unique right to take the life of her child then we as a nation, as a community, as individuals can and will justify anything.

By the way, 1,300 volunteers collected 131,245 signatures to put this amendment on the ballot.

MILES LAHUE
PATSY LAHUE
Grand Junction

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