Colorado “Personhood” Amendment Officially Dead for Now

Posted on September 12, 2012


RH Reality Check, September 12, 2012 by Robin Marty

It’s the end of the road for fertilized-egg-people, at least for this cycle in Colorado.  Although Personhood USA has until the 28th of September to challenge the results of the signatures gathered, the ballot certification deadline has already passed, making it impossible for the issue to be on the 2012 ballot.

Although Personhood backers gathered over 112,000 signatures for the ballot initiative, but only about 86,000 of them were valid, leaving the group almost 4,000 signatures shy of reaching the threshold.

Personhood, the granting of legal rights to fertilized eggs, had already been voted down by the citizens of Colorado in 2008 and 2010.