Fetal personhood bills a bad idea

 
BY ELI RESHEF, M.D.
Published: March 5, 2011

In this legislative session, “fetal personhood” bills illustrate how uncontrolled passion may drag our state into an embarrassing swamp of inadvertent legal, medical and administrative nightmares.

These bills attempt to accord the status of a person to an “unborn child,” defined as any human entity from fertilized egg to birth. It is a clear attempt by passionate pro-life activists to indirectly overturn Roe v....


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