Debunking Arguments Against Legal Personhood for the Unborn: Part 2

In part 1, we started working through some arguments against legally declaring the unborn to be persons. (These arguments come from a Time article published right after Dobbs came down.) But we’ve only started; let’s proceed through a couple more arguments in this piece.

Fetal personhood laws could also impact contraception access, given that some members of the anti-abortion movement argue that IUDs and the emergency contraception Plan B can prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg and violate personhood, explains Mary Ziegler, an abortion law historian at the University of California, Davis, School of Law.