"Faithful are the Wounds of a Friend"

Dr. Dianne N. Irving, a bioethicist and professor at Georgetown University, has criticized the personhood amendment, which we support, which appears on Colorado's November 2008 ballot. Dr. Irving's moral and scientific arguments are not only valid, they are foundational to the long-term success of the personhood movement. Colorado RTL will join Dr. Irving in educating pro-lifers, the public and politicians about the sexual and asexual origins of human life that must be recognized in law for it to protect all persons. Dr. Irving's criticism illustrates Solomon's words, "Faithful are the wounds of a friend" (Proverbs 27:6).

Colorado RTL's warning to the state Republican Party of a catastrophic loss in November has been reported (click for articles) by LifeNews, the Rocky Mountain News, and the Denver Post. Those articles are based upon this CRTL guest editorial:

Right To Life Warns Colorado Republican Chairman

Colorado's Secretary of State Mike Coffman certified that the Personhood Amendment will be on the November ballot! Now through the campaign we can teach the public and our politicians of government's obligation to uphold God's enduring command, Do not murder!

Colorado RTL thanks the Knights of Columbus council in Littleton Colorado for their encouraging letter and financial support to help CRTL promote personhood, as they wrote, "that society be mobilized to force our political system to protect the right to life of the unborn and elderly." Amen to Tony Schaffhauseer and everyone at the Archbishop James V. Casey Council!

Colorado candidates are answering our 2008 CRTL Candidate Questionnaire and you can click here on Candidate Answers to see a chart showing how they answer our seven vital questions and how the candidates compare to each other.  Also, you can click on each candidate's name to see his individual response. Notable for NOT answering the Colorado RTL Candidate Questionnaire is U.S. Republican candidate Bob Schaffer. So far, we've posted responses from...

Historic Date May 13, 2008

DENVER, Colorado - Kristi Burton of Colorado for Equal Rights, along with a hundred of their 1,100 volunteers, delivered dozens of boxes containing 131,245 personhood signatures to the Colorado Secretary of State! That's 55,000 more than required by law to get the Personhood amendment on the November ballot!

"This is historic," said Colorado Right To Life president Joe Riccobono. "For the first time in any state, in forty years, pro-lifers are forcing a statewide opportunity to declare the personhood, and therefore, the right to life, of unborn children." A dozen reporters attending including from Denver's TV stations 4, 7, 9 and 31, and print journalists from the Colorado Statesman, Associated Press, Denver Post, and the Rocky Mountain News.

The Colorado Supreme Court approved the ballot initiative that if passed, will create a constitutional amendment to define personhood as beginning at fertilization. Denver's NBC affiliate showed many...  View KUSA's news report...

Colorado RTL's letter to the editor in the Colorado Springs Gazette newspaper (Focus on the Family's hometown paper)...
Colorado Right to Life opposes every law that regulates the killing of unborn children:
because regardless of the intention, such laws violate God's enduring command, "Do not murder,"
because they merely prune the abortion weed and strengthen its root,
because such laws make abortion seem more palatable to the public and to politicians,
because our conservative judges who uphold such laws become increasingly hostile to the right to life of the unborn, and
because if Roe v. Wade is overturned, such laws will keep abortion legal in Colorado
because they end with the meaning, "and then you can kill the baby."

Colorado RTL, the largest pro-life organization in the state, has just moved our office across the street from the Capitol. Please consider your responses to the questions below and then mail your answers back to us at 1535 Grant Street, Suite 303, 80203. We will mail voter guides out to registered pro-lifers and post the results of our candidate questionnaires online at ColoradoRightToLife.org. We would like to hear from you before your constituents vote at the Assembly, so they will benefit from our Pro-life Voters' Guide. The time is short, so please respond as soon as possible. We hope you will answer "Yes" to each of the following fundamental moral questions. Thanks!

Candidate Name: _______________________; Party: ______________________

Office Sought: __________________________

1.  Do you advocate that the government uphold the God-given, inalienable Right to Life for the unborn?

2.  Do you agree that abortion is always wrong, even when the baby's father is a criminal (a rapist)? [See life-of-the mother note below.]

3.  Do you support the 2008 Colorado Personhood amendment effort to define "person" to include any human being from the moment of fertilization?

CRTL's $100-a-plate Fundraiser SOLD OUT!
UPDATE: Both Denver and Colorado Springs fundraising diners were a great success helping to put Personhood on Colorado's November ballot in 2008. Meet Judie at an Italian Fest...