Kristy Burton is an idealistic woman in her early 20's with a driving desire to protect the unborn.
She also has learned to stay on message and flee tough questions as well as the most seasoned partisan hack.
In a recent chat with the Center-Right-leaning Rocky Mountain News, Miss Burton Would scarcely admit that Amendment 48 (which would define a fertilized egg as a person with full civil rights) was a cynical end-around for Roe v. Wade.
Worse yet, she repeatedly said that such vital ancillary issues to the amendment, such as rape, incest, or birth control, would be issues to be decided "Later On." That shouldn't cause any problems...
Badgerjohn: You realize that the amendment would all but outlaw many common types of birth control (ie the pill), not to mention throw even more haze on the question of stem cell research.
KristyBurton: There is currently no law in Colorado on birth control that I'm aware of. Therefore Amendment 48 can't change current uses of birth control because if you read the language, Amendment 48 is not a birth control ban. That's not an issue we are asking voters to decide. If someone wanted to bring that up later on through a different law, they could, but my goal is not to ban all birth control. We need to answer the foundational question first and that is, is an unborn child a human being.
The whole chat is here:
Chat transcript
It's easy to see that defining a fertilized egg as a person could have far reaching effects beyond just the choice argument. The state Libertarian Party, which is officially neutral on the abortion question, opposes the amendment for this reason, as do many pro-lifers.
This has gotten relatively little media attention next to the Presidential race (Colorado is a key swing state, and there are some pretty fun Senate and House races here, too), and advertising has not been high on this topic (Right to Work ads have been on the air more than Cops reruns). We can't let this bit of insanity sneak into the state constitution.