Colorado Right to Life and American Right to Life have landed a major win in their effort to ban the most common forms of contraception, along with invitro fertilization, stem cell research and abortion. Yesterday, Colorado Secretary of State's office validated 103,000 signatures on petitions for the ballot initiative -- 74,000 was needed to get on the ballot.

According to the American Right to Life, the ballot measure seeks to:

"To promote the prohibition of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia (including by withholding of food and water, i.e., 'artificial nourishment and hydration'), and abortifacients such as RU-486 or any chemical weapon, physical device or process that kills a living human person (including Plan B also called the Morning After Pill, or any birth control pill or intrauterine device that works to prevent implantation"

They've even come up with a (saccharine yet still creepy) song for their campaign you can listen to here: Personhood.mp3

But to really get a fuller understanding of their twisted logic and language, watch the video below. Kristi Burton, of Colorado Equal Rights, one of the groups spearheading the ballot initiative, has to do some hillariously heavy verbal callisthenics to explain how the ballot measure is not a threat to birth control and even abortion rights. Her argument seems to run along the lines of: "Hey, I'm just an arsonist, it's the fire that burned down the house."