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"How PersonhoodUSA Will Hurt All Pregnant Women" and Do People Who Support "Traditional Values" Value Pregnant Women? by Lynn Paltrow of Nationa Advocates for Pregnant Women

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Please read Lynn's articles on Personhood and watch Dr. Deborah Frank debunk the mythology of "crack babies" "How PersonhoodUSA Will Hurt All Pregnant Women" by Lynn Paltrow http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lynn-m-paltrow/how-personhoodusa-and-the_b_176530.html March 24, 2009 PersonhoodUSA apparently sees itself as the new, hipper, more effective incarnation of the anti-abortion movement. PersonhoodUSA hopes that by establishing the "pre-born, as legal persons with protection under the law" it will end the "injustice of abortion." Its attempt to do this last November through a "personhood" ballot measure in Colorado's failed miserably. Nevertheless, PersonhoodUSA, is committed to "working tirelessly to establish personhood in every State." What supporters of this approach don't mention is that if the unborn have legal personhood rights, pregnant women won't...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 31, 2009 (boomark / email).