Wendy Davis: The next big battle in America's abortion fight will be over fetal personhood. - NBCNewsTHINK
, protested a ticket she’d been issued for driving alone in a carpool lane. Bottone argued that under the Supreme Court’s recent logic that overturned the constitutional right to abortion, her unborn fetus counted as a person and thus satisfied the high-occupancy vehicle lane requirements. Her ticket was later dismissed.
These anti-abortion zealots argue that “personhood” begins at conception, and that America should codify constitutional protections for fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses. Bottone’s protest highlighted the hypocrisy of fetal personhood logic that gives fetuses rights in cases of abortion but not in other contexts. Those of us who support access to safe, legal abortion care found Bottone's point well-founded — only because we believe that the fetus should have superior rights in neither instance.
that “personhood” begins at conception, and that America should codify constitutional protections for fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses.that would have provided clarity on this issue after a Catholic group and two pregnant women from Rhode Island sought to sue the state on behalf of their unborn fetuses.