Essentially, this is what happens when fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses are treated as separate “persons”: pregnant women cease to be people with civil and human rights. Yes, abortion rights are affected, but so is every other civil right associated with being a person: the right to be free from jail, to have a lawyer appointed for you if the state is trying to jail you, to be free from state surveillance, to make decisions about your own medical care—including childbirth—and to raise your own children. Alabama has created a “crazy-ass job” for lawyers, as Williams put it, but it’s no joke. When fetuses are people, pregnant women are not, when they need abortions and when they are carrying to term.
Lawyers for Fetuses? Yes, It’s Absurd, But It’s Worse Than You Realize

Source: rhrealitycheck.org

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