Huckleberry

Ol' Huckleberry, a principled man (rare in his party), endorses a 20 year old Coloradoan female who's earnest endeavors, blood, sweat and tears have been spent on getting a ballot initiative on the card in the November elections. The initiative - a 'Human Life Amendment' extending the states constitutional rights to a 'fertilized egg' esconced in it's mummy's womb. It is so sweet that this young 20 year old thought this up all by herself without any prompting from other members of the Colorado Equal Rights group.

I can't imagine what constitutional rights the fertilized egg will truly enjoy, but I'm sure in it's pursuit of happiness the fertilized egg will especially enjoy it's right to freedom of speech, it's right to bear arms, habeas corpus, (whoops, not anymore), it's rights to walk freely over common land, it's rights to privacy etc. etc., the list is as long as my arm. Of course being a fertilized egg is not easy, afterall it is reliant upon a host and eventually after several stages an umbilical cord and a placenta but by that time it is no longer a fertilized egg but a zigote and fetus respectively.

If we are going to give something, anything, constitutional protection should we not ensure that the one receiving it is at least able to exercise those rights? In Colorado, they are going to attempt to give a fertilized egg constitutional rights and the right wing calls Liberals irresponsible and crazy.

Of course gays and immigrants (living, walking, talking conscious entities) are denied any significant rights or protections under the Colorado constitution. Eggs however!