{"id":34,"date":"2008-11-05T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=34"},"modified":"2008-11-05T13:04:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T12:04:17","slug":"personhood-in-colorado-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2008\/11\/05\/personhood-in-colorado-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Personhood in Colorado: Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s definite yet, but at time of writing (10am GMT\u00a0on the fifth), it looks like Colorado voters have <a href=\"http:\/\/data.denverpost.com\/election\/results\/amendment\/2008\/48-definition-of-person\/\">overwhelmingly rejected<\/a> proposals to alter the constitution to extend the definition of &#8220;person&#8221; to the point of fertilisation.<\/p>\n<p>Would it be too provocative to express happiness about this small victory for moral and metaphysical sanity?\u00a0 Yes?\u00a0 Tough:\u00a0 Woo, yay, houpla!<\/p>\n<p>Oh &#8211; and Obama won there as well.\u00a0 I&#8217;m off to find Ann Coulter&#8217;s page to watch her fizzing.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE and more details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/popular\/ci_10900171\">here<\/a>.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s definite yet, but at time of writing (10am GMT\u00a0on the fifth), it looks like Colorado voters have overwhelmingly rejected proposals to alter the constitution to extend the definition of &#8220;person&#8221; to the point of fertilisation. Would it be too provocative to express happiness about this small victory for moral and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2008\/11\/05\/personhood-in-colorado-update\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[591,475],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-death","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}