Embryo Distortion: Scientific Inaccuracy from the Main Stream Media

A proposed amendment to the Colorado Constitution that would give legal rights to fertilized human eggs may be headed for the ballot next year, raising the prospect of a heated local debate over abortion...

And from the Associated Press:

The Colorado Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for an anti-abortion group to collect signatures for a ballot measure that would define a fertilized egg as a person.p>

What the New York Times and other media outlets apparently fail to understand is that when a human egg is fertilized (naturally or in a lab) what results is no longer an egg but an individual human embryo (a zygote to be scientifically specific). This embryo is a separate human life which should benefit from all inalienable human rights, and that is exactly what the proposed Colorado constitutional amendment would do. To call an embryo a "fertilized egg" is like calling a newborn child a "fetus outside the womb."