California Pro-Lifers Launch Human Rights Amendment Petition Campaign

California has joined the race to recognize human rights and personhood for all human beings from the biological beginning of development.

The states most outspoken pro-life advocates submitted the California Human Rights Amendment to Attorney General Jerry Brown following a press conference Monday in Sacramento.

The preborn, while demonstrably alive and demonstrably human, are not protected persons under our state constitution, said Lila Rose, the 21-year-old student pro-life activist, president of Live Action and cosponsor of the amendment. Our laws must protect each persons basic human right to life, from the beginning of his or her life until the end.

The push is backed by the California Civil Rights Foundation, a coalition of pro-lifers including Rose and sponsor Walter Hoye, the pastor arrested and imprisoned in 2008 for standing in silent witness outside an abortion mill.

The California Human Rights Amendment recognizes that valuing human life is fundamental to life itself, Hoye said at the press conference, and is the cornerstone of peace and prosperity for any society.

Hoye and Rose were joined by Judie Brown, president of American Life League, and Keith Mason, founder of PersonhoodUSA.

The activists stressed that personhood fulfills the dream of the civil rights movement.

The injustice of denying the personhood of whole classes of human beings is an injustice that cannot go unchallenged, Brown said. Now is the time for justice. Nothing less is acceptable in a republic based on the principle of equal justice for one and all.

California joins personhood movements in Missouri, Florida, Montana and Colorado. California state law requires a petition be circulated and signed by a number of people equal to at least 8 percent of votes cast for governor during the last state election.

UPDATE: In April 2010, California fell short of the necessary 694,355 signatures to get the Human Rights Amendment on the November 2010 ballot.

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[somethinguncreative]

Cap this. PLEASE? You cannot hear a word this man is saying.

[AmericanLifeLeague]

@somethinguncreative Captions have been added. Thank you.

[putzthewondersloth]

If women lose the right to an abortion, men should have to donate a kidney or part of their liver to those who need it.

If you believe in saving everyone, you must believe this too.

[megaead69]

Abortion = murder

[ryddelwearsahat]

@whitesox2005ify ..says the person who, by their snide comment, believes in an imaginary zombie deity who supports murder, slavery, homophobia, and the killing of ACTUAL children..

...I'm so glad I'm not you.

[whitesox2005ify]

@ryddelwearsahat

You need help sinner, 

[ryddelwearsahat]

If you are prolife, then you want me to be dead. You also don't want my son, born this march, to exist.

So, collectively, to all self-procalimed supporters of 'life' out there- fuck you too. Kill me, and kill my son- b/c I am alive THANKS to an aobriton, and indirectly, so is he, b/c my abortion at 14 allowed me to live, be safe, get an education, job, get married- and ahve my beautiful, healthy, adorable son.

A woman is worth infinitely more than a stupid fetus, so is her fucking FUTURE.

[bogusnachos]

I suggest that you don't have an abortion.

[danielcooper1000]

We can never find justice at the hands of corrupt judges. (See YouTube videos) Judge to Judge on Illegal Payments to Judges / Evil Triangle of Court Corruption / Richard Fine / Dr Shirley Moore /SBX 211. The fight to end this title wave of corruption in our country must start with the corrupt judges. We can not bring evidence of corruption to corrupt judges. Los Angeles Superior Court judges are illegally and unconstitutionally taking 50,000.00 each for a total of 23 million per year.

[jazzfan19605]

Question: Who would Jesus bomb and torture? If these misguided individuals were so pro-life they would set up shop in front of the Pentagon.

[TheAmericanmother]

Watch Goss4Governor channel about his thoughts on Abortion....thanks!