What is most worrying about this post-Roe trend of “pregnancy-related crimes”, however, is that the laws used in most of these prosecutions are meant to protect children rather than fetuses. What we are seeing here is a growing acceptance of the idea of “fetal personhood”, which grants fetuses and embryos the full rights of a legal person. According to Pregnancy Justice, at least 24 states include language around “fetal rights” in laws regulating or prohibiting abortion care.
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