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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Fetal Personhood' Is Religious Right's New Dangerous Word Trap in Abortion Debate{long read}
http://www.alternet.org/belief/fetal-personhood-religious-rights-new-dangerous-word-trap-abortion-debate'What does it mean to be a person? For the anti-abortion group Personhood USA, a person is present from the moment a sperm penetrates an egg, and members are fighting to have their definition encoded into law. Online coaching tools for abortion opponents use the term person interchangeably with human or human being. Are they interchangeable? Does it matter?
Personhood USA is driven by a mission that dates back to Roe v. Wade, when, in the process of legalizing abortion, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun made this comment: If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's [Roe's] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [Fourteenth] Amendment.
In other words, if an embryo or fetus can be defined legally as a person, abortion could potentially be classified as murder and a host of other legal rights could accrue to the developing fetus. The set of legal arguments that support abortion rights would not disappear but they would shrink. In recent years, Personhood USA and conservative Christian allies have been building case law and regulatory precedents with this goal in mind.
To win, they have to equate personhood with human life. But thats no easy task.
Exposethefrauds
(531 posts)reason can now claim they were knocked up in the USA and are now carrying a brand spanking new Citizen of the USA who is now
entitled to all the privileges and protections of being a American Citizen.
Now how fast will they change their mind as the non white, non Christians are lining up to at the border to obtain their green cards.
At a minimum, because the fetal person cannot leave the womb, the mother gets to stay in the USA till the kid is a legal adult or born, unless of course the RWNJ are willing to pay for the care and feeding, for 18 years, of all the citizens who's parents were deported or denied residency and we all know that is never gonna happen, they are too f-ing cheap and hateful.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)If they did, they would shelf this idea.
littlemissmartypants
(22,853 posts)Should be allowed in a vagina without permission. Symbolic rape is still rape.