Advocates Begin Calif. Push for ‘Personhood’ Amendment
Today, abortion-rights opponents will gather in Sacramento to announce an effort aimed at qualifying a ballot measure to amend the state constitution to state that a fertilized egg is a human being at the moment of conception. Similar efforts are under way in other states, and critics say the proposals could undermine in vitro fertilization, some kinds of birth control and stem cell research.
- "A New Push To Define 'Person,' and To Outlaw Abortion in the Process" (Abcarian, Los Angeles Times, 9/28).