I can understand the anti-abortion sentiment backing Colorado Amendment 62, the “Personhood” amendment (more info here). I disagree with it, and I think the nature of the amendment itself is highly flawed, but I can understand how thoughtful people, considering fetuses to be fully vested human beings, would attempt to write that into the state constitution so as to stop abortion.
What I don’t understand is this:
I could write all day about the goofiness here — the idea of Obama as the “Angel of Death” whose administration is focused solely on cheap abortion for everyone; the idea of a conspiracy of “Men in Black Robes” who “hated traditional American values especially life and liberty;” the idea of a multi-billion dollar “abortion industry” (the only industry, apparently, that the GOP doesn’t avidly support no matter what — maybe it should join the US Chamber of Commerce) — but mash it all together and … yeesh.
As a commercial to encourage support of protecting and cherishing life, it pretty much sucks. It does a mich better job as an expression of rabid fearmongering and anger-stoking.
That ad is really frightening, but not in the way they intended. So many lies, and so many people who will not apply critical thinking to them. shudder
This whole thing pisses me off (again). I’m also pissed at the DNC for giving my number to a “Pro-62 democrat” group who keep spamming my cell phone with their BS “we care about all life” voicemails.
Wow. That’s annoying.
I did get a call from such a group (“As a supporter of human rights …”), but only one.