Reproductive Rights, Health and Justice: Law and Policy

Section 8

half an hour

Fetal Personhood

Mary R Ziegler

The fight against abortion and even contraception has centered on arguments about fetal personhood. What is the constitutional basis for such an argument? What would it mean to enforce fetal personhood? Why have strategies focused on incarceration? We will consider these questions in tackling the next group of readings.

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