American Samoa


Nevada Gearing Up for 2012

Nevada Personhood is leading an effort to outlaw "the intentional taking of a prenatal person's life."
Arizona


Wisconsin


Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands


Georgia


Virgin Islands of the United States


Kansas


Connecticut


Indiana


Maine


Massachusetts


Montana Gearing Up for 2012

The Montana ProLife Coalition is gathering signatures for a ballot measure that would amend the state constitution to define "person" as including "any stage of development."
Maryland


Arkansas


Alabama


Virginia


Nebraska


Guam


Kentucky


New York


Colorado Tried and Failed

Voters here rejected a ballot measure to define human life starting "at the beginning of biological development" in 2010 by a 3 to 1 margin. They rejected a similar effort in 2008.
Vermont


South Dakota


Michigan


Missouri


Hawaii


Puerto Rico


North Carolina


Rhode Island


Idaho


Delaware


District of Columbia


New Hampshire


Minnesota


North Dakota


Oklahoma


Alaska Tried and Failed

Anti-abortion groups tried to get a personhood measure on the ballot for 2011, but the Attorney General rejected it because the language was "clearly unconstitutional."
Iowa


Tennessee


Florida Gearing Up for 2012

Anti-abortion advocates American Life League and Personhood USA have launched an amendment campaign that would grant rights starting at "the beginning of the biological development of that human being."
Louisiana


New Mexico


Wyoming


Pennsylvania


South Carolina


Utah


West Virginia


Washington


Mississippi Up for Vote in 2011

Measure would amend state constitution to declare that life begins at the point of fertilization.
Oregon Gearing Up for 2012

Oregon Human Life Amendment Committee tried in 2010 to get a measure on the ballot that would guarantee protection for "all human beings … including their unborn offspring at every state of their biological development, including fertilization." Anti-abortion groups are waiting for a court decision from the state Supreme Court before they can proceed with signature gathering.
Illinois


New Jersey


California Gearing Up for 2012

The group California Civil Rights Foundation is trying to pass an amendment defining a "person" as "all living human beings from beginning of biological development as human organism."
Ohio Gearing Up for 2012

The state's Attorney General rejected an effort to get a personhood measure on the ballot for 2011, but anti-abortion activists in the state will surely try again for 2012. Their measure defines human life as beginning at fertilization.
Texas