Kristine Burton

Kristine "Kristi" Burton is spokesperson for the anti-abortion group Colorado for Equal Rights. Burton and her group seek to pass an amendment to the Colorado Constitution that would define a fertilized human egg as a "person" under Colorado law. In an article in the Rocky Mountain News Kristi Burton that she got "guidance from God" to pursue the constitutional amendment.

Biography
Now 21 years old (in 2007), Kristi Burton was home-schooled and is described in a July 13, 2007 Catholic News Agency article as a "faithful Baptist from rural Peyton," Colorado. She decided she wanted to stop abortion when she was 13 years old. As of July 30, 2007, she was enrolled in an online law school for home-schoolers called Oak Brook College of Law based in Fresno, California. As of November, 2007, she was undertaking an effort to collect 76,000 signatures to qualify a ballot initiative to alter Colorado's Constitution to reflect her religious beliefs that an embryo is entitled to full legal benefits and privileges under Colorado law.

Sourcewatch resources

 * Colorado for Equal Rights