Nowhere is it recognized as a person until birth; including in the Dobbs decision.
“For our part, we do not question the motives of either those who have supported and those who have opposed laws restricting abortion,” Sam Alito..
Alito sneaked a church law into Dobbs in order to rewrite a medieval era Church law to make it look like English Common Law.
Alito sneakily cited an old law that imposed punishment for the killing of a fetus and inappropriately attributed it to English Common Law. The law was Leges Henrici Primi 222–223 (L. Downer ed. 1972) (imposing penalty for any abortion and treating a woman who aborted a "quick" child "as if she were a murderess").
It actually reads "If she does this [intentionally destroys her embryo] after it is quick [animate], she shall do penance for seven years as if she were a murderess."
However sAlito carefully clipped out the words "she shall do penance for seven years" from the quotation, between "quick" and "as.”
The word penance
ding beagle9 CarsomyrPlusSix makes it church law which is not supposed to be considered civil law.