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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 20 10, 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
was asked whether he, too, 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. i think that s a mistake.
letting your boss decide if you can have contraception or not, seriously? that s my position? okay. yeah. that s what i m for. are you sure? in 2012, the blunt amendment was defeated in the senate. it got votes from every single republican senator in the senate except for one. even seemingly moderate republicans like old scott brown got behind that effort to allow employers to restrict access to contraception. no abortion and no access to contraception has slowly become the party line for republicans. i mean, remember, rick santorum did pretty well in his race for the republican nomination in 2012 which he said he was waging in part to make clear to america the evils of contraception. one of the things i will talk
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.