(EP News)--The Colorado Supreme Court has affirmed ballot language a group wants to place on the 2008 ballot that, if approved by voters, would say “personhood” begins at the moment of conception.  The possible statewide constitutional amendment would define a human being and the beginning of life as starting at fertilization in three various parts of the state’s constitution.  Its backers hope that would challenge Roe v. Wade and ultimately result in full legal protection for unborn children from that point forward and the effect of banning all abortions in the state. 

After weeks of review, the Colorado Supreme Court this week released a decision granting Colorado for Equal Rights permission to move forward. The pro-life group will now begin gathering the 76,000 signatures required to put this issue on the November 2008 ballot. 

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