The laws used in most of these prosecutions, Pregnancy Justice pointed out, are typically meant to protect children, not fetuses. By prosecuting pregnant women under them, the group says, states are cementing the legal doctrine of \u201cfetal personhood\u201d, which seeks to grant embryos and fetuses full legal rights and protections \u2013 sometimes at the cost of the rights of the woman carrying them. Alabama and Oklahoma are both hubs for the growing fetal personhood movement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is the ultimate goal of the anti-abortion movement,\u201d said Dana Sussman, senior vice president at Pregnancy Justice, which scoured court and police records to find the cases. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t just to overturn Roe. It is to establish full personhood, full rights for embryos and fetuses.\u201d<\/p>\n
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