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Here is the full text of the email sent out by Amendment 48:

"Amendment 48 -- It simply goes too far." It's the mantra of the opponents of the Personhood Amendment. Dottie Lamm and Linda Campbell, for example, use it in an editorial printed in several newspapers across the state. It's been repeated until you're probably hearing it in your sleep, but does it mean anything? Resorting to repetitive use of a meaningless phrase is a propaganda tactic commonly employed when there is no substance to an argument. Opponents of 48 are hoping for what psychologists call a 'conditioned response'. You step into the voting booth and when you see Amendment 48 that little phrase automatically jumps into your head and you vote no. But before you vote, ask yourself this: Is the phrase true?

The Personhood Amendment defines person in the state constitution as beginning at the moment of conception. If it's true that human life begins at conception, is there any way acknowledging that truth can 'go too far'?

It has been interesting to watch the strategy of the 'no on 48' campaign. They know if they attempt to contend human life doesn't begin at conception they're arguing with virtually every geneticist and embryology textbook available. So instead, they take issue with the dictionary. They concede that human life begins at conception, but claim 'personhood' doesn't begin until some later, yet to be determined, date. They never come out and say it, but they assume it's okay to 'terminate' a developing 'human' until he or she reaches that undefined point of 'personhood'. If they simply pick up any dictionary and look up 'person', they will find the definition: 'A human being.' That's what it's meant for the last several centuries. 'Person' and 'human being' have always been the same thing, but the 'no on 48' folks plan to change all that. And, they do it as though no one should even question their totally illogical and false premise. They simply assume it's true and expect you to do the same.