Personhood Nevada stands for the right of every human being to be recognized constitutionally as a person. Since America's founding, our country has fought to affirm the self-evident truth that all men and women are created unique and equal and shall enjoy their God-endowed right "to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Tragically, that changed in 1973.
The Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision of 1973 established two classes of Americans. That decision, as well as the Supreme Court's infamous Dred Scott slavery decision of 1857, mandated that certain Americans were not entitled to legal recognition as persons. Instead, they were to be viewed as property and may be bought, sold, beaten or even killed without fear of legal retribution. Though the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in 1865, an entire class of Americans was denied personhood in the Roe vs. Wade decision. Today, those Americans are our prenatal children. Since the 1973 decision, the United States has presided over the legal execution of over 50 million American children.
Today, this exploited group of Americans has expanded to include not only our prenatal children, but also our infirmed and our seniors. Currently, unwanted persons have no rights.
Personhood Nevada believes that all people, especially those most vulnerable such as our children, elderly and infirm, are most valuable and worthy of constitutional protection. Our elderly are our national treasure and, along with our infirm, are owed our love and protection. Our children are the hope and the future of our state and our nation. Without our children, there is no tomorrow.
Therefore, Personhood Nevada stands ready and firm in our commitment to see the liberties and rights enjoyed by most Nevadans be constitutionally granted to all Nevadans. Only then will we see an end to discrimination and the establishment of civil rights for all in the State of Nevada.
In 1973, the United States regressed 200 years to a time when Americans could legally own and even kill one another. In 2010 and 2012, Nevada will finally reenter the age where, once again, all men and women are protected equally and enjoy their certain unalienable rights as endowed by their Creator. Foremost among these, the right to freely live.