Debunking Arguments Against Legal Personhood for the Unborn: Part 1

For all that Dobbs did for the fight for life, there’s one issue that it conspicuously avoided—whether the unborn are in fact human persons. Dobbs repeatedly made reference to supposed “fetal life,” but refused to claim that this fetal life was the life of a person and thus entitled to protection.

This is supremely unfortunate, because the personhood of the unborn is the core claim of the pro-life movement. Yes, we can be thankful (in certain ways) that Dobbs sent the abortion controversy back to the people—at least that’s better than abortion being nationally mandated.