Hat Tip: Dakota Voice

Three additional states have taken up the “personhood” cause in a push to guarantee the constitutional rights of the preborn.

Iowa, Virginia and Kansas are now among more than 30 states pursuing personhood amendments – a move pro-lifers view as their best chance of ending abortion in the U.S.

“Personhood is a revolution of the pro-life movement,” said Keith Mason, co-founder of Personhood USA, in a statement. “It challenges what’s been done in the past, stimulates the movement’s present, and eradicates the need for pro-life efforts in the future. Personhood is the best hope to end abortion in America.”

In Kansas, a new pro-life organization – Personhood Kansas – is currently collecting petition signatures to push the state legislature to pass a personhood amendment. The petition is being passed around and promoted among Christians and other pro-lifers across the state.

“As a movement, we know what our goal is: to have all children in the womb protected by love and by law,” states Personhood Kansas. “It is important that we learn the lessons of history and rely on the moral clarity of our God-given moral law to guide our efforts not on demoralizing legal and moral subterfuge.”

Before dismissing efforts at the state level, consider the basic framework of how our system of government works. The state provides an important balance to the federal government, It would be the states that have the power to actually change the constitution.