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Comments on: Propositioning The Electorate https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/11/02/propositioning-the-electorate/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:11:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/11/02/propositioning-the-electorate/comment-page-1/#comment-40566 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:11:45 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=6288#comment-40566 I’ve worked with [and to be honest, played with] the law too long not to recognize the danger of words in laws. The scariest part of Florida’s Amendment 2 is “substantial equivalent” – that can mean whatever you want it to mean.

How do you determine age? What is the birthday? Is it then illegal for women of childbearing age to drink because of the possibility of “serving alcohol to a minor”? There are just too many complications for something like this to ever work.

You have to wonder how much better off the world would be if these people showed as much concern for the children who are born, as they devote to those than aren’t.

]]> By: Mustang Bobby https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/11/02/propositioning-the-electorate/comment-page-1/#comment-40559 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:37:44 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=6288#comment-40559 I heard the young lady behind the Amendment 48 in Colorado being interviewed on NPR. She is 21 at the most and very earnest and passionate about her beliefs. While I admire that in someone who is so devoted to a cause that she is able to get it to a state-wide vote, it sounds like the breathtaking scope of the unintended consequences of this amendment either didn’t sink in or they don’t matter to her. In spite of the fact that she says she had a lawyer work out the language of the amendment, I have a hard time believing that they really grasp what would happen if the State of Colorado does truly declare that a fertilized egg is entitled to all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The questions are endless; first of which is how does anyone know the exact moment of fertilization and therefore the obtaining of the rights? Second, if the foetus somehow endangers the life of the mother or indeed kills her, is the foetus liable? Does a pregnant woman get to use a carpool lane on I-25? And on and on.

This absolutist mindset, regardless of which side of the spectrum it comes from (and I’ve heard some equally loony ideas from the far left, too), is the scariest thing out there.

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