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OmegaM posted...

I hope that if Roe v. Wade gets overturned, the Supreme Court will let states allow or ban abortion as they wish and will not declare that all human organisms, even the unborn ones, are people under the Constitution (which, since by the 14th Amendment all people must be equally protected under the law, would effectively ban abortion everywhere).

If unborn humans do get declared people, we'd probably have to do something about all those fertilized eggs that don't implant and pass out of the woman before she knows she's pregnant, to change inheritance laws, etc. And it does seem to me like it would get too invasive to do those things, and I don't feel any moral pull to do them either. (Of course, maybe I should.) I did read a part of Roe v. Wade in which the justices said that since in all matters other than abortion, unborn humans have never been recognized as people, it was appropriate not to consider them as people when deciding whether abortion should be legal.

Well to be fair even if they did that the 14th amendment wouldn't apply to fetuses.

"Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
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