The Big Media Blog » Colorado Personhood Initiatives

In response to the March 18 attack on a pregnant women in Longmont, state Senate Republicans have introduced legislation expanding the definition of “person” in specific state laws, including...

http://bigmedia.org/2015/04/15/reporters-should-call-bill-giving-legal-rights-to-fetus-personhood-not-fetal-homicide/

Infanticide is rare in America and has few advocates, yet anti-choice activists are leveling an accusation that more and more “pro-choicers” favor this form of murder. American Right to Life,...

http://bigmedia.org/2015/03/04/anti-choice-talk-radio-host-steps-up-accusation-that-pro-choicers-want-to-kill-newborns/

UPDATE Oct. 13, 2014: In response to a follow-up question yesterday, Robertson emailed me that the Gardner campaign did not seek a correction or clarification of an August Factcheck.org story, ev...

http://bigmedia.org/2014/10/12/media-omission-in-august-gardner-campaign-said-backed-personhood-proposals-to-ban-abortion-not-as-statement-of-principle/

Opponents of Colorado’s latest Personhood initiative, Amendment 67, claim, in media reports, that their measure isn’t about banning abortion. Multiple reporters have pushed back, pointing out...

http://bigmedia.org/2014/10/08/media-omission-this-years-personhood-amendment-targets-pregnant-woman-unlike-any-existing-law-in-co-and-nationally/

CORRECTION: This post describes the piece scrubbed by The Post as a “blog post.” It was actually  an article planned for the print edition. —————— Here are eight reasons why ...

http://bigmedia.org/2014/04/17/eight-reasons-why-a-denver-post-reporters-blog-post-deleted-by-his-editor-was-newsworthy-and-should-be-re-posted-on-the-denver-posts-website/

Media outlets are reporting that Rep. Mike Coffman has joined  Rep. Cory Gardner in withdrawing his support of the personhood amendment, which would ban all abortion, but, strangely, reporter...

http://bigmedia.org/2014/03/26/would-a-more-tightly-worded-personhood-amendment-be-ok-with-coffman-and-other-questions-left-hanging-after-coffmans-personhood-shift/

Activists led by Personhood USA yesterday submitted over 50,000 more signatures than the 86,000 required to make the 2014 election ballot, making it likely voters will cast ballots next year on...

http://bigmedia.org/2013/10/01/candidates-should-face-personhood-questions-from-journalists-in-2014-as-another-amendment-heads-to-ballot/

For a reporter, or even a talk-radio host, when a political operative says something is a “distraction,” then that’s the exact moment to start asking questions. So Laura Carno, whose org...

http://bigmedia.org/2013/08/30/when-a-political-operative-says-an-issue-is-a-distraction-its-a-cue-for-media-figurs-to-start-asking-questions/

KVOR talk-show host Jeff Crank said on-air Saturday that it’s impossible for GOP recall candidate Bernie Herpin to favor personhood, as claimed in a TV advertisement by Herpin’s opponents...

http://bigmedia.org/2013/08/23/talk-show-host-fails-to-prove-that-herpin-doesnt-support-personhood/

Reporters covering the signature-gathering campaign for the so-called Brady amendment, which would change the definition of “person” and “child” under Colorado law to include “unborn ...

http://bigmedia.org/2013/08/15/no-doubt-its-personhood-again-in-a-different-package/