11/19/07:'Personhood' Initiative Threatens Women's Rights- Stacy Harbaugh

Dear Editor: On Nov. 14, Pro-Life Wisconsin's director, Peggy Hamill, issued a press release on efforts in Colorado to begin a path for a "personhood" amendment to the state constitution. This amendment would give legal protection to fertilized eggs as a challenge to the medical privacy protection afforded by Roe v. Wade.

Pro-Life Wisconsin's excitement about the news in Colorado is appalling. The enthusiasm for such efforts is an insult to me as a woman who is committed to defending her body, her fate and the right to her own medical privacy.

I call on all citizens in Wisconsin to stand up for women's access to health care, birth control and abortion rights. Women's personhood must always include the right to health and the freedom of choice.

Stacy Harbaugh Madison