Personhood backers appeal Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling

 
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Supporters of a proposed initiative petition to grant “personhood” rights to human embryos have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that stopped the ballot measure.

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Personhood USA filed the petition with the nation's highest court on Monday. It asks justices to allow Oklahoma citizens to circulate and collect signatures on a personhood initiative petition.

The ballot measure was challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of several Oklahoma doctors and residents.

The state Supreme Court ruled unanimously in April that a proposed amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution that would define a fertilized human egg as a person violates a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court decision involving a Pennsylvania case and “is clearly unconstitutional.”





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