[August 7, 2009]
The Colorado Title Board on Wednesday voted in favor of a proposal that would amend the state constitution to extend legal protections to embryos, the AP/Colorado Springs Gazette reports. The proposal's language fundamentally is the same as that used in a ballot measure rejected by voters last year. However, this year the proposal also would protect embryos created through asexual methods of reproduction such as cloning, the Gazette reports.
Opponents say it would ban abortion as well as some types of birth control and in vitro fertilization. A rehearing on the Title Board's decision would have to be requested by Aug. 12 or else supporters can begin collecting signatures to have it put on the state ballot next year (AP/Colorado Springs Gazette, 8/5).
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