Reply To: Attack on Abortion Law
An Alabama county court recognized an aborted fetus as a plaintiff in a lawsuit. The judge’s decision came four months after the passage of Amendment 2 by voters in a state referendum last November. The law gives fetuses the same legal rights held by a person under the state constitution.
“Pregnant people are full citizens with bodily autonomy and a right to choose the outcome of their pregnancy,” wrote Dr. Katie McHugh, a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Rights. “Attempting to grant a six week gestational sac equal rights is both unlawful and idiotic.”
Author Mona Eltahawy added that the case effectively renders the woman—and all women in Alabama—”walking incubators” with fewer rights than a fetus.