Colorado ‘Personhood’ Group Running Radio Ad Featuring Fictitious Slave Speaking Out Against Abortion
Last week, I saw a press release from Personhood Colorado announcing that they were going to be holding a press conference on Monday featuring Alan Keyes at which the organization would announce their campaign strategy and release their first radio ad.
At the time I didn’t pay much attention to it because this is a fringe effort that doesn’t have much support even from anti-choice groups. In fact, the last time a “personhood” amendment was on the ballot in Colorado, it received a measly 27% support.
But now I wish that I had paid more attention, becuase supporters are trying to get it passed again this year and brought in Keyes to help them unveil their new radio ad yesterday which uses a fictitious slave to compare the fight against abortion to the fight against slavery: