Despite legal opposition from pro-abortion groups, the Nevada Personhood Amendment petition drive is still alive.
Officials with the pro-life movement had previously launched the effort, but spokesperson Dr. Candy Best tells OneNewsNow that it came to a screeching halt when "big money" groups voiced opposition. "At the point that we put this forward, we were taken to task and sued by Planned Parenthood and the ACLU to enjoin us from moving forward in the petition process," Best explains.
Activity stopped as the case made its way to the state Supreme Court, where it languished without a decision until the time period granted for petitioning had passed. The Personhood spokesperson says that robbed Nevada voters of the chance to decide the issue. "...Without saying so officially, [but] by [not] passing down a ruling from the bench, we were denied our civil rights and due process," she laments.
But now, Personhood Nevada is preparing a new petition drive targeting the 2012 election, unless the ACLU and Planned Parenthood sue again.
"It was not something that's going to come easily to us because of the fact that we're dealing with the issues of life, generally speaking, and who has a right to it: life," Best adds.
The pro-life movement is trying to legally define that a person is a person at the biological beginning of life.
Contact: Charlie Butts
Source: OneNewsNow
Publish Date: June 23, 2010
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