Marilinda Garcia dodges 'personhood' questions
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2nd District congressional candidate Marilinda Garcia has yet to clarify her position on the controversial “personhood” doctrine that defines a fertilized egg as a human being endowed with the rights of a citizen.
As we noted earlier, Garcia’s position that the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits abortion is virtually identical to the “personhood” plank adopted by the New Hampshire GOP last week.
Delegates to the state party convention added language to the platform declaring support for “the pre-born child’s fundamental right to life and personhood under the Fourteenth Amendment, and implement all Constitutional and legal protections.”
The revised party platform now calls for "a Life at Conception Act guaranteeing the protections of Life and Personhood to the pre-born under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.”
On her 2012 campaign web site, Garcia described her position on abortion as, "Believing that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life and clarifying the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections as applicable to unborn children.”
Pro-life activists leading the “personhood” movement do so with the goal of outlawing all abortions. Opponents say the initiative would also criminalize some birth control, limit in-vitro fertilization and restrict medical options for pregnant cancer patients.