Debate on Amendment 48 (Hey, that rhymes!)

Amendment 48, if passed in Colorado, will define person as "any human being from the moment of fertilization."

Your group will provide arguments for or against this proposed amendment.

The websites listed below will offer arguments for and against this issue. This is a starting point for your research, not an endpoint.

(You are to make notations of where your arguments come from. On your debate sheets, you MUST make citations of where your evidence comes from.)

Against websites:

http://www.prochoicecolorado.org/ballotwatch.shtml

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/07/04/111507.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjsCHQQ4s7M

For websites:

http://www.coloradoforequalrights.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSHZFGtkaSQ&feature=related

Analysis / background of both sides

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/coloradoballot/17630431/detail.html

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/10/29/in-colorado-voters-will-decide-whether-human-embryos-are-people-under-states-constitution.html

http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Colorado_Definition_of_Person_Initiative_%282008%29

http://www.ontheissues.org/Background_Abortion.htm