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PERSONHOOD

So our friends in the GOP have a plan to end abortion once and for all. Something called "Personhood." 

 Now this plan is ingenious because it establishes that a fetus is a legal person even before viability, which would make abortion murder as well as most chemical contraception. 

 The truly ingenious part is what happens WHEN these laws along with any other of the recent overreaching abortion laws are challenged. The arguments will no doubt, one of these days rise to the level of the Supreme Court where the current justices will have an opportunity to review and strike down the historic Roe Vs. Wade decision. You think it won't happen, you think it's impossible? Well who could have predicted that the court would have struck down the Voter Rights Act. I'm still reeling over that decision. 

 So women that want to protect their right to control their own bodies and their supporters have to find a different way to fight these laws. They have to challenge the CORE BASE of these laws and have THAT be the element that is argued in court. 

 The core base is that a fetus is a person and in some cases these laws state from the moment of conception. If so then they are persons of the United States and these persons are owed the rights of citizens of this country, except in cases that state "Persons born in United States." 

 Taken to its logical yet ridiculous conclusion, the mother of the fetus should be allowed to receive the same benefits of a mother of a live birth child... Federal, State and local benefits. 

 The lawsuit will probably come when some State official denies benefits that is afforded to every person which will contradict the whole theory that a fetus is a person. It will probably be the whole social security requirement which is currently needed to claim dependents on your income tax. Changing the language of these laws to deny rights and discriminate against these "new" persons will be a legal can of worms. 

 If Republicans want to restrict a woman's right to choose by deeming a fetus a person then women in those states, who choose not to move, should hold them to that standard in every aspect of the law. 

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