As the Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic reports:
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains spokesperson Monica McCafferty told the Independent her organization has yet to get either congressman to go on the record. Likewise, a Colorado Right to Life staffer told the Independent that her organization had no news to relate on lawmakers’ positions.
“[T]he only info we have right now is a reminder to you that supporting the dismembering of unborn children is a crime against humanity and against God for which some day all pro-choice people will answer,” wrote a staffer named Donna…
Colorado Right to Life is diligent in getting elected officials to go on the record. The group’s questionnaires go out early and often and the CRTL blog includes an exhaustive list of where state and federal candidates stand on abortion rights.
In 2010, the group raised doubts about Coffman’s commitment to ending abortion, citing his absent support for federal personhood measures. And the group flagged Tipton as untrustworthy on the issue, reporting that he avoided responding to the organization’s surveys over the last three years.
“[Tipton] has lied to us and others about having responded… His website says he is pro-life but he approves of abortion in cases of rape or incest. Scott Tipton is NOT PRO LIFE and is lying in order to get your vote!”
In both 2008 and 2010, Republican candidates were severely damaged in Colorado by their refusal to endorse, or in the case of 2010’s Senate nominee Ken Buck endorsing and then unendorsing, the “personhood” amendments on the statewide ballot at those times. It’s not a universal predictor of political trouble, though, as Rep. Cory Gardner’s early and steadfast support hasn’t hurt him–and probably won’t in his shored-up red district this year.
For Tipton and Coffman, however, every woman “personhood” repulses counts dearly.
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If you “dismember” a zygote that doesn’t actually have any “members” to dis yet? (When do fetuses get distinguishable limbs, anyway?)
What if you bludgeon an unborn child instead? Or kill it pharmaceutically? Will God be placated if you just refrain from actually dismembering it?
Inquiring minds want to know, Donna!
dismembers a person AFTER it is born I guess we know what they want to do to that dismembering person don’t we?
“G**gle,” wash that keyboard off with soap and water!
…do you know how much I just went through to find a decent smartphone that’s not related to Google and not an iPhone?
Would it help if I followed my first impulse and suggested that you goggle it?
It’s personal. And principled. I can’t stand an evil corporation having the motto “Don’t be evil.” I work for a megacorp, but we don’t pretend we’re still a quirky starutp.
I’m in the market and would value your advice.
Took most of the weekend away from any technology except the new phone. Needed that, badly.
I ended up choosing a Windows Phone. The HTC Trophy, to be specific. I needed a phone right away, so I didn’t have time to wait for the 4G Nokia Windows Phones that are supposed to be out this summer, but if you have a few months to wait, that would be my top pick right now. I’m enjoying my Windows Phone so much that I ended up calling a friend who works for Bing and asking him to give my compliments to the Bing Mobile team. I’ve never gotten into Bing for searching the Web, but the mobile version which comes with Windows Phones (you can get to it in one tap of the screen from anywhere!) is great.
I’ve never been a big Microsoft fan (who IS, really?) but they seem to have really finally gotten mobile right, at least for my needs. If you are huge on apps, you might still want to go with the iPhone, but everything else is, IMHO, better with Windows Mobile. I’m more interested in having a really useful miniature computer at my fingertips than in playing games on my phone, and for that purpose the Trophy is working out really well despite being 3G. The autocorrect is much less irritating than on iPhone or Android, too, which is a relief for me because I’m a HUGE texter. I don’t talk on the phone if I can avoid it.
Caveat: If you tend to LIKE Apple products, you should probably get the iPhone. Some people just really get along with the Apple user interface better than anything else. I’m not one of them. Droid is just a more powerful iPhone more optimized for computing functions than storing and displaying media. The UI is basically the same. Blackberry has gone down the tubes. That leaves Windows phones as the only thing on the market that’s both different from the iPhone and actually usable, functional, and produced by a company not likely to collapse in the next couple years like Blackberry will.
zygotes will achieve personhood through incorporation
will gain additional constitutional rights through incorporation.
I called both his DC and Colorado office. Got a “we’ll get back to you on this”. Then nothing. Oh, the Colorado aide did mention that this is a state government issue implying that it’s not really Coffman’s problem so…
of this futile exercise is to get Roe v Wade overturned at the national level so it becomes a state issue by a sneaky redifinition of abortion as murder of a “person”?
Maybe it doesn’t involve Congress or Coffman directly (actually any abortion doesn’t affect these self-righteous men directly) but don’t they support overturning Roe v Wade by any means possible to make it a state issue? I would think they would be jumping at the chance to stop these “murders” of innocent eggs.
is in no hurry to make any public statment on this considering how many Republican women, not to mention all the Dems in his new district, are appalled by this amendment. They’d love for people to just quit asking so they don’t have to piss anybody off. They’ll get back to us when they can’t avoid it for another second.
The advocates want each state to define what a person is….you know, like in the Dred Scott decision.