The 50th anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade that made abortion widely accessible will mark the first year since it was overturned last summer, a move that set the new legal goalpost for anti-abortion advocates on the concept of fetal personhood.
, two pregnant women sued on behalf of their fetuses, arguing the state abortion law stripped their unborn fetuses of their personhood by repealing older state laws that established human life begins at conception. The state Supreme Court ultimately found fetuses lacked proper legal standing to bring the lawsuit.
Magee used Marshall's words as the legal basis for her argument that the Rhode Island Supreme Court should have included"unborn plaintiffs" in the broad category of “any person” protected by the 14th Amendment.opinion, U.S. lawmakers responded by attempting to establish fetal personhood to guarantee a right to life for the unborn, but when such legislation failed, the Republican Party shifted attention to state legislatures,to ProPublica.
In 2004, Congress passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which recognizes a fetus as a legal victim in 60 listed federal violent crimes.
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