My intellectual sympathies lie with preserving innocent life except in extreme cases but bills like this are so stupid politically that I wonder if they aren't being prompted by Democrats undercover, knowing this is exactly the kind of issue they need to bring their base back to the polls. Would Obama really have squeaked out Colorado in 2012 without Amendment 64 also on the books or the phony "war against women" campaign? Would Hickenlooper have won in 2010 without a similar anti-abortion amendment on the same ballot?

I wonder how the state GOP can be such a monolithic power structure as claimed and seen by many people but not shut down stupid legislative maneuvers that can only hurt them at the polls.