The sense is that the initiative may not succeed.
The idea is to declare the fetus - "a legal person" or to recognize the fetus as an actual person. In this way, abortion would literally and legally be murder.
This particular angle is old from the point of view of ideology, but it is new in the sense of making it law.
This initiative is moving forward in other states as well.
Anchorage Daily News: New fight develops over rights of fetuses
...outlaw abortion in Alaska by declaring fetuses to be "legal persons" appears headed for a court fight.
Kurka's effort is part of a nationwide push to put "personhood" initiatives on state ballots.
"So, basically, what we're doing here is if we say that we recognize the unborn as persons, then a woman's right to choose or a right to privacy doesn't matter (just like) she doesn't have a right to kill her child after it's born..."
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This has been tried before but has failed. We have a constitution in this country that defines person hood. The people who are trying to redefine it are pushing their particular religious beliefs. Any state that tries this will find themselves in Federal ct. almost immediately.
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