Most Americans are not aware of the current Holy War engaging our country. This is not our nation’s battle against Muslim Al Quaeda and the Taliban, but another quiet war being waged as a “birthing contest” between Christians and non-Christians.
 
“Quiverfull” is a movement among conservative evangelical couples chiefly in the United States. It promotes procreation, seeing children as a blessing from God. It believes that the Bible mandates the role of wives as bearers of children and workers in the home under the authority of a husband. Shunning all forms of birth control, followers call themselves a "quiver full," "full quiver," or simply "QF" Christian. This movement has well-known followers, one being Michael Farris, advocate for home-schooling. Doug Phillips, son of U.S. Constitution Party leader Howard Phillips and president of Vision Forum Ministries, advocates for Biblical patriarchy, creationism, homeschooling, and Quiverfull. 
 
These people hate birth control! So could they be behind the effort to force Coloradoans to vote on a new “Personhood” Amendment in November? Amendment 62 asks Colorado voters: Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution defining the term "person," as used in those provisions of the Colorado constitution relating to inalienable rights, equality of justice, and due process of law, to include any human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being? If passed, this law would ban all abortions and most forms of birth control, quite in keeping with the objectives of Quiverfull.
 
Or could the Catholics be trying to make law reflect their doctrine? Papal directives prevent Catholic hospitals from performing abortions or vasectomies or tubal ligations. Nor will they dispense contraceptives. Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted recently excommunicated a Catholic nun who, as top administrator at a Phoenix hospital, permitted an abortion to save a woman’s life when her pregnancy caused severe health problems. Doctors told the woman, who suffers from pulmonary hypertension, that if she continued with the pregnancy, her risk of death was close to 100 percent -- and the baby would die as well. Despite this, she, along with other Catholics involved in the decision, including the patient, were automatically excommunicated by the Catholic Bishop.
 
Whatever their religion, Amendment backers who attempt to codify religious opposition to birth control as a basis to our laws represent a Holy War against American families. During these difficult economic times, the last thing families need is to be denied the capability of deciding their size.
 
Many families, whose well-being depends on both parents working, have seen one of those parents lose employment. Another mouth to feed would have devastating effects on the children already living, so contraception is essential to that family’s survival. Women with pre-existing health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and epilepsy, or women receiving chemotherapy or taking medications, rely heavily on the availability of birth-control.
 
If Amendment 62 passes, Colorado will soon resemble Nicaragua and El Salvador, where women routinely die because doctors, unlike the brave nun excommunicated in Phoenix, are too afraid of punishment by religious authorities to use abortion to relieve the complications of childbirth.
 
With similar attacks upon reproductive freedom being made in other states, our nation, once a World Leader in human equality, is in danger of regressing to medieval times when religion ruled the world!"