After the Supreme Court overturned the right to an abortion in its 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, many anti-abortion advocates shifted their focus to a bigger battle: conferring the legal rights of a person before birth. If successful, the fetal personhood movement would go further than Dobbs. It would make abortion murder and rule out all or most exceptions.
Treating a fetus as a legal person opens up a range of questions. What if a person has a miscarriage? How does this impact IVF treatments? Would birth control still be legal? Some implications go beyond the ...