When does a person become a person? Abortion opponents who say personhood begins with the fertilization of a human egg are pushing to force a Novermber vote to amend the state constitution. Fertilized human eggs would get legal status. What effect would that have on abortion, contraception and in-vitro fertilization? And what are its chances of passage given that similar measures failed in Mississippi and Colorado?
Dr. James Johnston, Zanesville physician and Personhood amendment sponsor Sandy Theis, Spokeswoman, Healthy Families Ohio Jo Ingles, Reporter, Statehouse News Bureau Megan Verlee, Reporter, Colorado Public Radio