An all-Republican CA2 panel (GWB/Trump/Trump) flirts with recognizing fetal personhood in a future challenge to NY’s Reproductive Health Act, but says this appeal’s plaintiff and the fetus the challengers sought to add to the case didn’t have standing to sue https://storage.courtlistener.com/pdf/2025/06/03/doe_v._hochul.pdf
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Are they sure they want to go down this rabbithole?
This is from one right-wing legal luminary’s amicus brief in Dobbs: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-1392/185196/20210729093557582_210169a%20Amicus%20Brief%20for%20efiling%207%2029%2021.pdf
Under this hierarchy, the interest of the unborn, trumps that of the woman.
Marital coverture was a dubious bargain. Fetal coverture is no bargain at all.
https://virginialawreview.org/articles/state-abortion-bans-pregnancy-as-a-new-form-of-coverture/