Monday, April 30, 2012

Oklahoma personhood

  • The Oklahoma Supreme Court unanimously vetoed a ballot measure that would have given embryos full personhood rights on Monday, ruling it clearly unconstitutional because it would block a womans legal right to have an abortion.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that a proposal to give personhood rights to human embryos is unconstitutional.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that a ballot measure to completely prohibit abortion was "clearly unconstitutional.
  • (Raw Story)
  • The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that a proposed ballot issue that would define a fertilized human egg as a person is unconstitutional. The vote of the nine-member court was unanimous.
  • (Daily Oklahoman)
  • The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Friday struck down the states proposed personhood ballot question, deeming that the legislation -- which would have declared that life begins at conception -- is clearly unconstitutional.
  • (International Business Times)
  • Even though a bill has failed in the legislature, one proponent says the personhood movement is very much alive in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Personhood Act, which states that life begins at conception, has failed in the Oklahoma House.
  • (OneNewsNow)
  • Documents: View a PDF of the Oklahoma Supreme Courts decision regarding a personhood petition. OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Oklahoma Supreme Court threw out an initiative petition Monday that would have called for a vote on personhood beginning at conception.
  • (Tulsa World)
  • Oklahoma, #49-- In an attempt to define life as beginning at conception, some lawmakers in Oklahoma this year introduced a so-called personhood bill that would have defined a fertilized human egg as a person.
  • (iVillage.com)
  • OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Monday that a proposal that would grant personhood rights to human embryos is unconstitutional.
  • (Republic)
  • REUTERS - A proposed law in Oklahoma that would grant embryos full rights as people from the moment of conception may represent the next big challenge to the constitutional right to abortion in the United States.
  • (Reuters India)

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