supported the personhood initiative federally, he said, absolutely. oh, but wait, there s more. in 2012, while mitt romney was running against president obama, congress at the time was debating something called the blunt amendment. the blunt amendment wasn t a potential ban on birth control like the personhood initiative was. it was a bill to allow employers to pick and choose what their employees get from health insurance. it sprung out of republicans apparent desire that your boss should be able to block you from getting contraception specifically but really would apply to anything in health care. in the 2012 presidential debate, president obama just hammered mitt romney for supporting that. a major difference in this campaign is that governor romney feels comfortable having politicians in washington decide the health care choices that women are making.
way to personhood by more than 40 points. the mainstream antiabortion movement actually opposed the colorado effort in part because they worry that if they bluntly tried to ban all abortion in all circumstances, that might cause a backlash that would set back their otherwise very successful strategy of incrementally chipping away at abortion rights. there was also the issue of not just abortion, but contraception. banning birth control. the personhood initiative because of the way it was worded would not just have made criminal all abortion in all circumstances, it would also outlaw arguably hormonal forms of birth control. the pill. the most popular form of birth control in the country. so, in, even in a conservative year, colorado said no to personhood by huge, huge margins. that did not stop the personhood folks, though. in 2011, the following year, they got the same measure on to the ballot in mississippi. and there were national predictions that, wow, it s mississippi.
sperm meets egg, that s a person. fertilized eggs are people. so in colorado, as soon as you had sex, you legally would be two people. if a woman had unprotected sex or even protected sex where the method of contraception didn t work or protected sex where the method of contraception did work but not yet, in colorado as soon as you said, hey, that was fun, congratulations, you re two people. wow. the antiabortion activists pushing the personhood amendment did get enough signatures to get the thing on the ballot for the 08 election then it failed spectacularly. it lost by more than 40 points. two years later in 2010, the same activists reintroduced the same hey, you re two people now measure. they changed the exact language. instead of moment of fertilization, it became the beginning of biological development, but it was exactly the same bill. and even with that year s conservative electorate in 2010, still, colorado voters said no
way to personhood by more than 40 points. the mainstream antiabortion movement actually opposed the colorado effort in part because they worry that if they bluntly tried to ban all abortion in all circumstances, that might cause a backlash that would set back their otherwise very successful strategy of incrementally chipping away at abortion rights. there was also the issue of not just abortion, but contraception. banning birth control. the personhood initiative because of the way it was worded would not just have made criminal all abortion in all circumstances, it would also outlaw arguably hormonal forms of birth control. the pill. the most popular form of birth control in the country. so, in, even in a conservative year, colorado said no to personhood by huge, huge margins. that did not stop the personhood folks, though. in 2011, the following year, they got the same measure on to the ballot in mississippi. and there were national predictions that, wow, it s
statewide in colorado. and now he has decided that he never really had that position at all. he says he didn t understand what he was advocating all those years. the republican position on contraception has become increasingly doctrinaire, completely untenable except in republican primaries. that fact and that issue boiled over today in a bombshell case at the united states supreme court. we have more on that ahead. stay with us. scott: appears buster s been busy. man: yeah, scott. i was just about to use the uh. scott: that s a bunch of ground-up paper, lad! scotts ez seed uses the finest seed, fertilizer, and natural mulch that holds water so you can grow grass anywhere! looking good, lad! man: thanks, scott. ez seed really works! so, how come haggis is so well behaved? scott: cause he s a scotty. man: oh. scott: get scotts ez seed. it s guaranteed. seed your lawn. seed it! are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule.