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Come right down to it, the argument is simple to the point of being self-evident: A human embryo is either a human person or well along in the process of becoming one. In either case, the embryo enjoys fundamental legal rights of personhood, including the right to life.
That occurred to me again while reflecting on the furor over an Alabama supreme court decisionasserting the legal personhood of human fetuses in a case involving in vitro fertilization — IVF for short. Pro-lifers were predictably gratified while pro-choicers predictably threw a fit.
The Alabama case was not directly about abortion. But it undoubtedly has helped set the stage for two new U.S. Supreme Court cases that are. The court heard oral arguments in a case from Texas on March 26 and will hear arguments in another, from Idaho, on April 24. Decisions in both are expected before the court’s current term ends in late June or early July.
No matter what the Supreme Court does, its decisions will further inflame debate over abortion as an issue in November’s presidential and congressional elections. President Biden and Vice President Harris say they will make abortion central to their reelection campaigns. And in November a dozen or more states will consider ballot measures to add a right to abortion to their state constitutions.
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That occurred to me again while reflecting on the furor over an Alabama supreme court decisionasserting the legal personhood of human fetuses in a case involving in vitro fertilization — IVF for short. Pro-lifers were predictably gratified while pro-choicers predictably threw a fit.
The Alabama case was not directly about abortion. But it undoubtedly has helped set the stage for two new U.S. Supreme Court cases that are. The court heard oral arguments in a case from Texas on March 26 and will hear arguments in another, from Idaho, on April 24. Decisions in both are expected before the court’s current term ends in late June or early July.
No matter what the Supreme Court does, its decisions will further inflame debate over abortion as an issue in November’s presidential and congressional elections. President Biden and Vice President Harris say they will make abortion central to their reelection campaigns. And in November a dozen or more states will consider ballot measures to add a right to abortion to their state constitutions.
The Texas case and Mifepristone
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Fetal personhood is the big issue in our country's abortion debate
Two upcoming Supreme Court decisions, one involving a Texas law and the other an Idaho statute, will place the question of fetal personhood at the center of the abortion debate. Learn more:
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