• Personhood continues to be a topic of international debate and has been questioned critically during the abolition of human and nonhuman slavery, in debates about abortion and in fetal rights and/or reproductive rights, in animal rights activism, in theology and ontology, in ethical theory, and in debates about corporate personhood, and the beginning of human personhood. (wikipedia.org)
  • Corporate personhood has evolved into a highly controversial topic since it was first established in the famous supreme court case, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. (ipl.org)
  • In neither case, however, did the Court address a fundamental flaw with the arguments of the company asserting the speech and religion claims: that the claims depend on the rejection of corporate personhood. (bc.edu)
  • But corporate "personhood" means the interests of the firm are distinct from those of the shareholders. (bc.edu)
  • Jan led the effort to pass the first ever resolution to end corporate personhood in her town of Point Arena, CA in 2000. (movetoamend.org)
  • Many held signs that read "End corporate personhood. (freespeechforpeople.org)
  • Deutch introduces an amendment to ban corporate money in politics and corporate personhood. (city-data.com)
  • Personhood USA is a grassroots Christian organization founded to establish personhood efforts across America to create protection for every child by love and by law. (blogspot.com)
  • The group, a grassroots Christian coalition, was founded to establish personhood efforts across the nation. (wnd.com)
  • Cristen Hemmins, sued to keep the Personhood amendment off the ballot in Mississippi, talks with Rachel Maddow about using her personal story to encourage opposition to legislation that would define legal personhood as beginning at conception. (msnbc.com)
  • The "life begins at conception" amendment is nothing new for Personhood USA, the activist group that has gotten similar ballot measures on the books in Florida, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, and twice in Colorado. (popfi.com)
  • Over the past few days, the massive quantities of signatures that poured in just amazed us," remarked Gualberto Garcia-Jones, co-sponsor of the Personhood Ballot initiative. (blogspot.com)
  • Johnston is leading a signature drive to get a constitutional amendment to assign personhood status to fertilized eggs on the 2018 ballot in Ohio. (businessinsider.com)
  • Clean Water Now wants to add an amendment to the Lee County ballot for the 2020 presidential election that would include the Caloosahatchee's right to "pure, clean and unpolluted water. (winknews.com)
  • Clean Water Now continue working to get the amendment on the ballot for the 2020 election. (winknews.com)
  • Unlike most of his Republican primary rivals, Romney never endorsed the Mississippi 'personhood' ballot measure, which would have treated a fertilized egg as a person entitled to full legal protections. (politifact.com)
  • He suggested that the legislature pass a simple constitutional amendment to put before Iowans at the ballot box. (caffeinatedthoughts.com)
  • Gilbert, who is a candidate for Lt. Governor, also suggested that if Roe v. Wade , a landmark abortion ruling in the United States was ever overturned, his amendment would still make abortion illegal in the state of Louisiana. (973thedawg.com)
  • Francis Beckwith, "Abortion, Bioethics, and Personhood: A Philosophical Reflection" This belief in the underlying unity of an individual is a metaphysical and moral belief referred to as the substance view of personhood. (wikipedia.org)
  • In reality, short of a human life amendment to the Constitution , all pro-lifers are working on incremental steps to stop abortion. (jillstanek.com)
  • A couple people have pointed out to me that even a human life amendment is incremental, since it omits babies in all other pro-abortion countries. (jillstanek.com)
  • He cited as an accomplishment Personhood USA's nomination by one of the nation's leading abortion industry advocates to its 2009 "Hall of Shame," for those who pose the greatest threat to abortion. (wnd.com)
  • We at Personhood USA are honored to be considered one of the top four threats to abortion in America," Keith Mason, co-founder of the organization, said after the National Abortion Rights Action League made the selection. (wnd.com)
  • NARAL is a greedy, bloodthirsty organization, but they have pegged us correctly - Personhood USA is working to outlaw abortion, recognizing the Personhood rights of every child in America," Mason said. (wnd.com)
  • He said NARAL described Personhood USA as: "The group behind the anti-choice 'personhood' measures, Personhood USA, exists solely to establish legal rights for fertilized eggs and trigger legal battles over abortion that could go all the way to the Supreme Court. (wnd.com)
  • Working to outlaw abortion makes Personhood USA a strong candidate for Hall of Shame of the year. (wnd.com)
  • The Los Angeles Times reported Sept. 28 that while personhood measures failed in Montana and North Dakota legislatures earlier this year, "the close votes alarmed supporters of legal abortion. (wnd.com)
  • Micha'le Simmons's guest column addressing Mississippi's Personhood Amendment ("Criminalizing a woman's right," Nov. 8), constituted a blatant attempt to focus on technical detail and glittering generalities to cloud what is at the heart of the abortion debate: the moral and legal status of the fetus. (yaledailynews.com)
  • On Tuesday, March 26th, the Trump administration threw down the gauntlet on George Soros and the globalist abortion lobby when it announced that it would expand the Mexico City policy and start to implement the Siljander Amendment. (personhood.org)
  • This Amendment was put in place in 1981 to ensure no U.S. foreign aid would be used to lobby for abortion, but it was never implemented…until now. (personhood.org)
  • By Sarah Quale, president of Personhood Alliance Education- In their zeal to protect "abortion access," Democrats inadvertently forced a change in our national conversation that has cast a very unfavorable light on their position. (personhood.org)
  • At least two states have already contacted the group Americans United for Life indicating interest in similar amendment language to clarify there isn't a constitutional right to an abortion in their state, similar to what West Virginia and Alabama did, according to Steven Aden, Americans United for Life chief legal officer and general counsel. (politico.com)
  • Personhood activists, who generally oppose abortion even in the case of rape and incest, have several policy changes in mind as the new administration takes office. (businessinsider.com)
  • Even some abortion opponents hesitate to endorse personhood measures because they have such broad implications. (businessinsider.com)
  • If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment. (wnd.com)
  • For, as Justice Harry Blackmun admitted in 1973 in explaining his vote in favor of Roe v. Wade, the decision he reached would "collapse" if the "suggestion of personhood [of the fetus] is established. (yaledailynews.com)
  • According to WND columnist Jill Stanek, pro-life legislators in Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana and Texas have also signaled their intent to introduce personhood statutes. (wnd.com)
  • And lawmakers plan to soon introduce personhood bills in Wisconsin, Alabama, South Carolina, and Mississippi. (businessinsider.com)
  • In the 1990s, Republicans proposed anti-flag-burning amendments, fetal-personhood amendments and defense-of-marriage amendments. (hnn.us)
  • Statehouses, too, have been roadblocks: Fetal personhood legislation introduced in at least nine states this year failed to advance, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights research group. (businessinsider.com)
  • The fetal personhood amendment in Colorado that we mentioned was defeated by a 3-1 margin. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • What we basically aim to do is declare personhood at fertilization which would give those unborn babies the same rights we have under the 14th amendment of the constitution," Hurd said. (blogspot.com)
  • The principle of the 14th Amendment is being followed by not denying "to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. (latimes.com)
  • That will be the notion that the unborn life is a person under the Constitution and therefore should receive all the protections under the 14th amendment and otherwise. (newsweek.com)
  • In one branch, the Supreme Court finds that unborn children are persons under the 14th Amendment, effectively saving millions of lives. (caffeinatedthoughts.com)
  • Mississippi's Personhood Amendment did not pass, thus Mississippians are still not people. (popfi.com)
  • We congratulate the Mississippians for Healthy Families Coalition, which ran an amazing campaign to educate voters about the dangerous impact of the amendment. (enewspf.com)
  • Mississippians from all walks of life, medical professionals, clergy, parents, and young women and men, spoke out in opposition to the amendment. (enewspf.com)
  • I urge fellow Mississippians to vote "for" Amendment 26, the Personhood Amendment, on Nov. 8. (vicksburgpost.com)
  • Dr. Kevin Baird, Executive Director SC Pastors Alliance ( SCPA ) and incoming Director of the National Association of Pastors Alliances at the podium, standing with other supporters of SC Personhood Constitutional Amendment ( S.719 , H .4093 ), including other South Carolina pastors, SC Senators, SC Representatives, and Christian pro-life leaders. (christiansforpersonhood.com)
  • Claiming a scheduling conflict, he did not participate in the 'personhood' candidate forums in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida sponsored by Personhood USA. (politifact.com)
  • Personhood USA is committed to assisting and supporting Personhood Legislation and Constitutional Amendments and building local pro-life organizations through raising awareness of the personhood of the pre-born. (blogspot.com)
  • WND reported earlier that the movement already has reached into 32 states, where citizens are working now to find sponsors for statutes or constitutional amendments. (wnd.com)
  • A former member of the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices, which oversees public campaign financing, Youngblood supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and has submitted legislation to strengthen Maine's Clean Election Act. (freespeechforpeople.org)
  • Georgia Right to Life President Daniel Becker today announced the formation of a new national pro-life organization, the National Personhood Alliance , a confederation of faith-based, pro-life organizations and leaders who believe pursuing Personhood is essential to protecting all innocent human beings in the 21 st century. (jillstanek.com)
  • But what could really be the difference between an organization named Personhood USA and one named National Personhood Alliance? (jillstanek.com)
  • PUSA publicly announced in a September 1 email it would "not be participating in the new National Personhood Alliance. (jillstanek.com)
  • The Personhood Alliance board of directors voted unanimously on March 7, 2019, to accept the applications of new affiliates in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Nebraska, raising the number of its affiliate organizations to 19, with three more state applicants currently under consideration. (personhood.org)
  • For immediate release - Personhood Alliance affiliate, Personhood Alabama, filed suit today in the Circuit Court of Madison County to seek justice for "Baby Roe. (personhood.org)
  • In Alabama, groups working to defeat the measure - Alabama for Healthy Families and Alabama Students Voting No on Amendment 2 - raised more than $925,000, significantly outspending the nearly $4,000 the Alliance for Pro-Life Alabama raised. (politico.com)
  • There are just so many ways that personhood principles can be brought to bear on public policy," said Dr. Patrick Johnston, a family doctor and pediatrician who's also director of Personhood Ohio, an affiliate of the national advocacy group Personhood Alliance. (businessinsider.com)
  • Voters in Mississippi have overwhelmingly defeated an amendment to establish that a fertilized human egg is a person, despite support for the measure from the Republican and Democratic candidates for governor. (democracynow.org)
  • DENVER / Christian Newswire - Personhood Colorado, sponsors of the 2010 Personhood Amendment, today submitted 46,671 signatures to the Colorado Secretary of State's office. (blogspot.com)
  • The Senate also voted to send a bill back to Committee that would have defined "personhood" as beginning at the moment of conception, which effectively kills the bill until 2013. (balloon-juice.com)
  • Romney said it would take a state constitutional amendment to change that, so Huckabee asked, 'Would you have supported a constitutional amendment that would have established the definition of life as conception? (politifact.com)
  • In 2004, 2008,and 2012, the Republican Party platform backed the 'human life amendment,' which asserts that legal personhood begins at conception -- and with that comes full constitutional protections. (politifact.com)
  • The appellee and certain amici [pro-lifers] argue that the fetus is a 'person' within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. (wnd.com)
  • On Tuesday, November 28, Free Speech For People filed an amicus brief in the Colorado Supreme Court case of Anderson v. Griswold, a challenge to Donald Trump's eligibility under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment led by our allies at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). (freespeechforpeople.org)
  • The concept of personhood is difficult to define in a way that is universally accepted, due to its historical and cultural variability and the controversies surrounding its use in some contexts. (wikipedia.org)
  • This amendment will define when life begins and seeks to acknowledge and protect the constitutional and human rights of those pre-born South Carolinians. (christiansforpersonhood.com)
  • Prior to the ratification of the amendment, the founding fathers saw it fit that the state legislators be invested with the authority to assign states their chosen Senators. (ipl.org)
  • A constitutional amendment would require ratification by voters in three-quarters (38) of the 50 states. (freespeechforpeople.org)
  • Congress sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification in 1972, but its derailment rendered the Constitution effectively unamendable . (hnn.us)
  • Romney Opposes the Blunt Amendment? (pjmedia.com)
  • Heath asks Romney if he's for the "Blunt-Rubio" amendment, and defines it. (pjmedia.com)
  • It may be, as Ace hopes , that Romney simply didn't know which amendment he was addressing in the question. (pjmedia.com)
  • But if Romney didn't know the details of the amendment or didn't get the question, he should have answered as such and told the reporter he would get back with him once he had looked into it. (pjmedia.com)
  • Matt Lewis reports that Romney's camp says the question was confusing (as I suspected above) and that Romney supports the Blunt amendment. (pjmedia.com)
  • Polling showed that in the final days leading up to the vote, when voters were given information about the so-called "personhood" amendment, support for it dropped below 50 percent. (enewspf.com)
  • Personhood Mississippi is collecting signatures from registered voters across Mississippi to get laws on when life begins changed in our state. (blogspot.com)
  • Voters of all backgrounds are calling for a U.S. Constitution amendment that would allow us to regulate the raising and spending of campaign funds to stop the unlimited flow of secret money into our democratic process," Andrew Bossie, executive director of MCCE, told a crowd of more than 50 people, some of whom rode a bus to the rally. (freespeechforpeople.org)
  • If he really opposes the amendment, he owes Republican voters an explanation. (pjmedia.com)
  • The push to confer full "personhood" status on every fertilized human egg has been rejected by voters and lawmakers in state after state, including deep-red Mississippi. (businessinsider.com)
  • Colorado Voters Slam Personhood Measure (found via Reproductive Rights Prof Blog ). (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • The 17th Amendment of the Constitution once it was ratified by a majority of states in 1913 changed the way Senators were elected in the voting process. (ipl.org)
  • 1) See the list posted here of the 22 SC Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee ( 13 R, 9 D ), and these Members' Positions on the S.719 SC Personhood Constitutional Amendment. (christiansforpersonhood.com)
  • 2) As described on this list of these 22 SC Senators, seven ( 7 ) are co-sponsors and/or have signed the pledge to vote for the S.719 SC Personhood Constitutional Amendment. (christiansforpersonhood.com)
  • Perversely, they rely on a wildly impoverished historical record, one that fails even to comprehend the nature of amendment. (hnn.us)
  • Defining personhood is a controversial topic in philosophy and law and is closely tied with legal and political concepts of citizenship, equality, and liberty. (wikipedia.org)
  • The defeat of the so-called 'personhood' amendment in Mississippi is a major victory for women's health. (enewspf.com)
  • Mississippi is now the second state to reject 'personhood. (enewspf.com)
  • Topic: Describe the proposed personhood amendment from Mississippi. (cheapcustomwriting.com)
  • Attempts in recent years to pass personhood amendments in Colorado, Mississippi and North Dakota have crashed and burned. (politico.com)
  • I support the Hyde Amendment, which broadly bars the use of federal funds for abortions. (politifact.com)
  • Another big deal this week was a rally in Augusta, Maine, organized by our friends at Maine Citizens For Clean Elections, in support of a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. (freespeechforpeople.org)
  • The campaign for an amendment is well underway in Maine, with bipartisan support. (freespeechforpeople.org)
  • Many Republican candidates oppose equal pay for equal work and support personhood amendments. (americanprogressaction.org)
  • Jim Heath, a reporter for ONN-TV in Ohio, just Tweeted a remarkable piece of news: Mitt Roney told him he does not support the Blunt amendment, which would empower employers and insurers to deny health coverage they find morally objectionable. (pjmedia.com)
  • Alabama became the first state in the nation to enact what opponents call a "personhood clause" in its constitution, recognizing "the rights of unborn children, including the right to life. (politico.com)
  • It would take a change to the state court or a state constitutional amendment to protect the lives of mothers and unborn children in Iowa," Vander Plaats said. (caffeinatedthoughts.com)
  • Colorado defeated the so-called 'personhood' amendment by wide margins in 2008 and 2010. (enewspf.com)
  • On March 4, the Colorado Secretary of State disclosed that 20.63% of the 79,648 signatures submitted by Personhood Colorado were invalid. (blogspot.com)
  • AUGUSTA, Maine - Republican state Sen. Edward Youngblood of Brewer and Democratic state Sen. Geoff Gratwick of Bangor joined forces Tuesday to endorse a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling that equates campaign donations to free speech protected by the First Amendment. (freespeechforpeople.org)
  • Processes through which personhood is recognized socially and legally vary cross-culturally, demonstrating that notions of personhood are not universal. (wikipedia.org)
  • Their goal is to place personhood amendments on more state ballots through petition processes. (feminist.org)
  • We're so thankful for help from American Life League, Durago-based pro-life group LifeGuard, Personhood USA, and dozens of other pro-life organizations. (blogspot.com)
  • granting non-human entities personhood, which has also been referred to a "personhood movement", can bridge Western and Indigenous legal systems. (wikipedia.org)
  • This timeline is a great education tool to explain how corporations have used the legal system to gain constitutional "personhood rights" through court decisions and how people have organized to gain constitutional rights through amendments (with a few exceptions). (movetoamend.org)
  • Texas is merely promoting those children's legal rights and defending the dignity and personhood of all human life. (latimes.com)
  • Capacities or attributes common to definitions of personhood can include human nature, agency, self-awareness, a notion of the past and future, and the possession of rights and duties, among others. (wikipedia.org)
  • We call for an amendment to the US Constitution to unequivocally state that inalienable rights belong to human beings only, and that money is not a form of protected free speech under the First Amendment and can be regulated in political campaigns. (movetoamend.org)
  • The proposed amendment would specify that the rights laid out in the U.S. Constitution are for individual human beings and not for groups of people. (wrjn.com)
  • At the annual March for Life Jan. 22, pro-life groups will use the anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision to raise the profile of "personhood. (wnd.com)
  • The Senate is set to vote on the amendment tomorrow. (pjmedia.com)
  • It's a constitutional Catch-22: To repair Senate malapportionment, for instance, you'd have to get a constitutional amendment through that malapportioned Senate. (hnn.us)
  • We were told that we needed to replace over 15,000 of our signatures," commented Keith Mason, co-founder of Personhood USA. (blogspot.com)
  • While other states have enacted "right to life" and "personhood" language, none have gone as far as Alabama's constitutional amendment. (politico.com)
  • Reading that I became confused, because last I knew Becker was working for Personhood USA , a group that sounded an awful lot like this new group. (jillstanek.com)
  • The Timeline of Personhood Rights was developed by Jan Edwards for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom . (movetoamend.org)
  • Every Fourth of July, Americans celebrate independence, but it might be more significant, more pregnant with meaning, to celebrate amendment - the writing, ratifying and especially the amending of constitutions. (hnn.us)
  • Nationally, Democrats generally wish to amend constitutions and Republicans to preserve them," The Economist proclaimed last month, on the same day that California's Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, proposed a federal constitutional amendment that would regulate gun ownership. (hnn.us)
  • The reporter basically misstates what the amendment would do, so the confusion is the fault of the media doofus. (pjmedia.com)
  • Charles Taylor, "The Concept of a Person" Others, such as philosopher Francis J. Beckwith, argue that personhood is not linked to function at all, but rather that it is the underlying personal unity of the individual: What is crucial morally is the being of a person, not his or her functioning. (wikipedia.org)
  • With this in mind the 28th Amendment will tackle the problem of big corporations head on with as little government intervention as possible. (ipl.org)
  • This Amendment will be composed of three parts initially the first two focused completely on the corporations themselves while the last part will deal with the individual so that he/she may not further exploit the system. (ipl.org)