Colorado Springs Gazette - We won't give up!

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As my story running Saturday at www.gazette.com points out, Amendment 62 is very similar to Amendment 48, which wanted to grant personhood to the unborn and was on the ballot in the 2008 state elections.

Amendment 48 was defeated at the polls by a wide margin: 73 percent of Coloradans voted no, and 63.3 percent in El Paso County voted no.

So why will Amendment 48 not have a similar fate? Personhood Colorado director Gualberto Garcia Jones said the coalition behind Amendment 62 is much more savvy in discussing the measure, and the cultural and political climate has become more conservative than it was in 2008.

Jones denied that the measure is merely a symbolic gesture, but he acknowledged the coalition has its work cut out for it. He said the climate today might mean a jump of 15 percent in the polls compared to the 2008 results, which would put it at 42 percent — still shy of what it needs but a respectable percentage.

“It’s a stretch, but the positive thing is we did it again, and we are still standing up for truth,” Jones told me. “Whether we win or not, it’s important we keep building.”

If Amendment 62 loses, enough momentum has developed that within a few years a “personhood” amendment may pass, seemed to be what Jones was saying. He gave the example of a similar amendment in South Dakota that took eight tries to pass.

“A few things in the political spectrum have a black and white stand, and this is one of them,” Jones said. “When you talk about inherent value of a human being, that should be black and white.”

“If God wants it, it will pass.”