American Samoa
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Nevada
Gearing Up for 2012
Nevada Personhood is leading an effort to outlaw "the intentional taking of a prenatal person's life." |
Arizona
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Wisconsin
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Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
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Georgia
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Virgin Islands of the United States
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Kansas
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Connecticut
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Indiana
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Maine
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Massachusetts
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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
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Arkansas
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Alabama
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Virginia
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Nebraska
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Guam
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Kentucky
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New York
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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
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South Dakota
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Michigan
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Missouri
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Hawaii
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Puerto Rico
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North Carolina
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Rhode Island
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Idaho
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Delaware
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District of Columbia
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New Hampshire
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Minnesota
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North Dakota
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Oklahoma
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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
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Tennessee
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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
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New Mexico
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Wyoming
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Pennsylvania
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South Carolina
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Utah
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West Virginia
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Washington
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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
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New Jersey
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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
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