Face of “personhood” issue young, resolute
Kristi Burton remembers the day, at age 13, when she decided she would spend her life defending the unborn . . .
Burton, now 20, is the leader of a Colorado ballot initiative to define a constitutionally protected person as “any human being from the moment of fertilization.”
And she has already made a splash that’s rippling through the national anti-abortion movement.
Colorado and Montana are the two states where “personhood” measures could make the 2008 ballot and create a legal foundation to outlaw abortion.
Burton thinks Colorado for Equal Rights — the organization she started last year with her family in rural Peyton — is close to having the 76,000 voter signatures needed by May 13 to trigger a statewide vote on a constitutional amendment.