NEWS FLASH

Radical Personhood Amendment Fails To Make It Onto Colorado Ballot | Despite reporting that they had submitted enough signatures earlier this month, the Colorado Personhood Coalition’s radical anti-choice measure will not be on the state’s November ballot after the Colorado Secretary of State’s office found that it fell 3,900 signatures short of the 86,000 needed. The coalition turned in 121,000 signatures, so about 30,000 were invalidated. Voters have already turned down this measure twice in 2008 and 2010, and polling shows that the measure — which could outlaw birth control, in vitro fertilization, and medical treatment for pregnant women with life-threatening medical conditions — remains unpopular. Republican congressional candidates in Colorado even refused to endorse it.