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Personhood amendment inches a step closer to ballot

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DENVER • The backers of a constitutional amendment that would extend legal protections to embryos are a step closer to launching their campaign.

The state Title Board voted Wednesday to back the wording of the proposal.

Opponents have seven days to ask for a rehearing. If they don't, backers of the "personhood amendment" could begin collecting signatures to get it on Colorado's ballot next year.

It's essentially the same language used in the ballot proposal rejected by voters last fall. This time there's a small change designed to protect embryos created through asexual reproduction methods such as cloning.

Opponents say it would bar abortion as well as some forms of birth control and in vitro fertilization.


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