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[[File:Personhood-icon.jpg|Thumb|Right|200px| Personhood USA]]
[[File:Personhood-icon.jpg|Thumb|Right|200px| Personhood USA]]
'''Personhood USA''' is a 501(c)(4) advocacy group incorporated on June 14, 2008, in Colorado used as a principal mailing address a P.O. Box in Arvada. Keith L. Mason was listed as the registered agent. Its funding sources are unknown and its website disclosed little meaningful information. Personhood Colorado successfully placed on the November 2010 ballot a proposal to ban abortion in Colorado,<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/27/abortion-ban-proposal-appear-colorado-ballots/?test=latestnews Abortion Ban Proposal to Appear on Colorado Ballots, FOX News, March 27, 2010]</ref> where it lost with less than 30% of the vote and dragged down the [[pro-life]] [[U.S. Senate]] [[Ken Buck]] to defeat even though he was expected to win.
'''Personhood USA''' is a 501(c)(4) advocacy group incorporated on June 14, 2008, in Colorado, using as a principal mailing address a P.O. Box in Arvada. Keith L. Mason was listed as the registered agent. Its funding sources have been largely unknown and its website disclosed little meaningful information. Personhood Colorado placed on the November 2010 ballot a proposal to ban abortion in Colorado,<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/27/abortion-ban-proposal-appear-colorado-ballots/?test=latestnews Abortion Ban Proposal to Appear on Colorado Ballots, FOX News, March 27, 2010]</ref> where it lost with less than 30% of the vote and dragged down the [[pro-life]] [[U.S. Senate]] [[Ken Buck]] to defeat even though he was expected to win.
In 2008, the personhood initiative also lost in Colorado, and likewise failed to attain even 30% of the vote. It dragged down the [[pro-life]] congressional leader [[Marilyn Musgrave]], who ran more than 15 points better than the initiative did, but still lost her seat by a wide margin.
In 2008, the personhood initiative also lost in Colorado, and likewise failed to attain even 30% of the vote. It dragged down the [[pro-life]] congressional leader [[Marilyn Musgrave]], who ran more than 15 points better than the initiative did, but still lost her seat by a wide margin.