Face of "personhood" issue young, resolute

By Electa Draper
The Denver Post
05/04/2008

Kristi Burton remembers the day, at age 13, when she decided she would spend her life defending the unborn.

She made her commitment to the movement as she lay in bed with a cold or bout of flu, reading a book on community service and watching the 2000 elections on TV.

"It just came to me," Burton said. "I prayed about it and knew God was calling me to do it."

Burton, now 20, is the leader of a Colorado ballot initiative to define a constitutionally protected person as "any human being from the moment of fertilization."

And she has already made a splash that's rippling through the national anti-abortion movement. the rest image