Constitutional rights for eggs?

Just when I thought the anti-choice extremists couldn't get any whackier, they introduced Amendment 48 in Colorado.

This amendment would grant constitutional "personhood" to a fertilized egg.

This dangerous amendment not only threatens a woman's right to an abortion, but also emergency contraception, birth control pills, and IUDs. It's a major threat to women's health and privacy.

That aside, I found it interesting that the religious extremists want to grant full constitutional rights to an embryo but not to gay people.

But then a friend explained it to me (with tongue in cheek): An embryo is innocent, but gays are evil.