Fetal Personhood, ‘Once a Moon Shot,’ Has Never Been More Possible

Fetal Personhood, ‘Once a Moon Shot,’ Has Never Been More Possible

Since January, at least 11 state legislatures have introduced bills that would recognize having an abortion as homicide. The point of these laws, legal experts warn, is establishing fetal personhood: statutory recognition of embryos and fetuses as separate, living people, with rights that are often at odds with those of the pregnant person. Implicit recognition of fetal personhood has already existed all around us for decades—take, for instance,…