Fetal personhood could challenge the meaning of equality - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : The antiabortion movement has not been fighting since the 1960s merely to allow each state to set its own policy on abortion.
40% : Georgia's new law, which bans abortion roughly two weeks after a woman could realize she is pregnant, amends the definition of "natural person" to mean "any human being, including an unborn child."
39% : Instead, the movement has always argued that abortion is a violation of the fetus's rights to equality under the law.
38% : The movement is preparing legislation banning abortion if Republicans regain control of Congress and the White House in 2024.
38% : For example, even when Roe was on the books, some women were forced to have C-sections to maximize the chances that their child would be born alive or faced criminal prosecution for drug and alcohol use during pregnancy by prosecutors who invoked the idea of fetal personhood.
37% : Even after Roe v. Wade legalized abortion throughout the United States in 1973, antiabortion leaders still spent a decade fighting for a constitutional fetal-personhood amendment.
36% : Now that Roe is gone, the push for a national ban on abortion has started again.
36% : Antiabortion leaders also acknowledge that discrimination against fetuses is not the historical norm: In their telling, there has been almost universal condemnation of abortion in the past.
35% : At least for the moment, most states do not allow for the criminal punishment of women for abortion (Georgia's law is unclear on this point).

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