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4. I was expecting something like this from SCOTUS...
Sun Jul 17, 2022, 05:47 PM
Jul 2022

I was thinking they’d invoke “natural law” to declare fertilized eggs to be humans, but this is just a more subtle way of doing it.

But this article misses the point of such a shift. Although the Dobbs ruling “returned the issue to elected representatives,” this, in fact, opens the door to an outright ban. All it takes is a D.A. in a red part of a blue state to charge the woman and doctor with first-degree murder, on the grounds that existing homicide laws already criminalize the killing of a “human being,” and that precedent now declares embryos to qualify. If such a case gets brought before the Supreme Court, is anyone confident they wouldn’t uphold it?

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