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sponsored by Duncan Hunter of CA defines personhood as follows: "each and every member of the species homo sapiens at all stages of life, including, but not limited to, the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual member of the human species comes into being." This definition blows the door wide open and could possibly lead to a ban on all forms of contraception, including spermacide, condoms, diaphragms and even literature advocating contraception, the right to an abortion or reproductive freedom. Such laws were used that way as recently as sixty to eighty years ago. in the 19th century the 14th Amendment was designed to define personhood and citizenship for freed slaves, but was used to protect corporations. A corporation was a person. Now stem cells, etc are people The mixing of abortion with stem cell research and equating a blastocyst with a person has grave consequences for the development of cures and treatments for disease in the 21sr century, if it passes. Ray ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn