[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: CRTL amends its "Personhood" amendment to scientific truth

Sun Jul 20 18:22:38 MDT 2008

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 20 Jul 2008 AD

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*PFLI Comment: Our question would be, will the other states using 
language similar or spawned from the same essential core as CRTL's (i.e. 
the fake science of "Weldon-Brownback" and the UN language) now do the 
courageous thing and use solid and truthful scientific terms and truths? 
This would include, but not be limited to the SD ballot measure and the 
recently failed bill in Ohio.*

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http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/irv/irv_131personhoodandcrtl.html

  Comments: CRTL Acknowledges Irving's Scientific, Moral and Legal
  Arguments on "Personhood"

Dianne N. Irving
July 17, 2008
Reproduced with Permission

It would seem that CRTL is quite graciously agreeing with the scientific 
and moral points that I have provided, and changing the language of 
their "Personhood Amendment 48" to reflect both sexually and asexually 
reproduced human beings (see their Press Release below). It is quite 
refreshing to see such intellectual and moral honesty on these difficult 
issues. Millions of young innocent living human beings will thereby be 
saved from manipulation and destruction, including naturally occurring 
human identical twins reproduced asexually within the woman's body. 
Their only remaining disagreement, i.e., over my use of the term 
"exclusionary" when they refer to their term "including", is, I think, 
still debatable -- legal advice given to me is that it would be better 
and far safer legally to use the more inclusive phrase, "including but 
not limited to". Even better to use the far safer inclusive phrase 
"whether sexually or asexually reproduced". If the scientific facts 
about human asexual reproduction are objectively true, which they are, 
then one does wonder why the strange reticence on the part of many to 
actually use those scientific terms per se within a law or regulation.

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http://www.coloradorighttolife.org/news/2008/06/colorado-rtl-reply-dr-irving 

Colorado Right to Life
Press Release
June 24, 2008

    * Colorado RTL Reply to Dr. Irving

      "Faithful are the Wounds of a Friend"

Dr. Dianne N. Irving, a bioethicist and professor at Georgetown 
University, has criticized 
[http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/irv/irv_126colorado.html] the 
personhood amendment, which CRTL supports, 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).

Dr. Irving rightly explains that defining human life as beginning at 
"the moment of fertilization" includes only those people who came into 
existence at the union of a sperm and oocyte (ovum). However, scientists 
and fertility clinicians bring many human beings into existence through 
asexual reproduction quite apart from the merging of a sperm and ovum. 
Scientists "split" the youngest embryonic children, breaking off cells, 
to cause twinning that brings a second child into existence, and 
fertility clinics will then destroy any unneeded embryos. Dr. Irving has 
cataloged many asexual methods of human reproduction including splitting 
embryos and cloning, methods which produce living human beings which the 
personhood movement must protect by love and by law.

Dr. Irving criticizes Colorado's Amendment 48 because it addresses 
sexual but not asexual reproduction. CRTL concurs and recommends that 
the personhood movement nationwide accept Dr. Irving's moral and 
scientific conclusions and adopt fully protective legal wording to the 
effect of: "defining 'person' as any human life from the moment of 
sexual or asexual reproduction, including from fertilization."

CRTL disagrees with Dr. Irving only in her characterization that our 
initiative wording provides an "exclusionary clause... denying human 
personhood to all categories of asexually reproduced human beings." 
Rather, Colorado's personhood Amendment 48 uses the word "include," that 
the term "person... shall include any human being from the moment of 
fertilization." This definition would not exclude cloned or in vitro 
twinned children. Other than this legal disagreement, CRTL thanks Dr. 
Irving for her courage and insight, and asks the personhood movement to 
adopt her biological, moral, and legal argument.

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    Joe Riccobono
    President, CRTL
    Office at ColoradoRTL.org <mailto:Office at ColoradoRTL.org>

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