Beyond Abortion: The Fight Over Fetal Personhood Is Here (Video)

Jan. 12, 2023, 3:48 PM UTC

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 ...

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