A Fetus is not a Citizen. It has no rights. Unless of course you want activists to step in and claim representation
An obstetrician is trained that they are treating two patients when treating a woman who is pregnant. Therefore two Individuals. Medically speaking anyway.
By the way. In terms of Legal rights, the unborn do have them. And theyre fully enforceable. the unborn will be represented in a court. We can start with inheritance rights if something happens to the parents. For one thing.
Even people who would take you side are usually conflicted in their arguments, but at least some (unlike you) try and be honest
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The entire legal case is utterly confused. Given that fetuses are not individuated persons with rights, Stodghill and his attorneys had no proper legal grounds to sue under the wrongful-death statute, which is specifically restricted to “the death of a person.”"
Fetuses Don’t Have Rights; Pregnant Women Do; This Distinction is Crucial - The Objective Standard
You people are no different than Muslim sects in Mumbai. Which shows you to be more of an American Taliban, than patriots or true Christians
WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? (In Mumbai, India)
The 1971 MTP act specifically mentions laws regarding:
- When a pregnancy can be terminated.
- By whom it can be terminated.
- Place where pregnancy can be terminated.
- The punishments of violation.
The major point of discussion in relation of these laws is that no pregnancy can be terminated after 20 weeks have elapsed in any circumstance unless there is a life-threatening medical emergency to the mother, like in a situation of a threatened abortion. Hence, even if a mother is diagnosed to have a baby with anencephaly or multiple defects incompatible to life after birth, she will be forced to keep the baby once the time limit of 20 weeks has been crossed.
Rights of an unborn baby versus the social and legal constraints of parents: Birth of a new debate
In the USA
Fetal Rights Fetal Rights
The rights of any unborn human fetus, which is generally a developing human from roughly eight weeks after conception tobirth.
Like other categories such as
Civil Rights and
Human Rights, fetal rights embraces a complex variety of topics and issuesinvolving a number of areas of the law, including criminal, employment, health care, and
Family Law.
Historically, under both English
Common Law and U.S. law, the fetus has not been recognized as a person with full rights.Instead, legal rights have centered on the mother, with the fetus treated as a part of her. Nevertheless, U.S. law has in certain instances granted the fetus limited rights, particularly as medical science has made it increasingly possible to directly view, monitor, diagnose, and treat the fetus as a patient.
The term
fetal rights came into wide usage following the landmark 1973
Abortion case roe v. wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S. Ct.705, 35 L. Ed. 2d 147. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled that a woman has a constitutionally guaranteed unqualified right to abortion in the first trimester of her pregnancy. She also has a right to terminate a pregnancy in the second trimester,although the state may limit that right when the procedure poses a health risk to the mother that is greater than the risk of carrying the fetus to term. In making its decision, the Court ruled that a fetus is not a person under the terms of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. However, the Court also maintained that the state has an interest in protecting the life of a fetus after viability—that is, after the point at which the fetus is capable of living outside the womb. As a result, states were permitted to outlaw abortion in the third trimester of pregnancy except when the procedure is necessary to preserve the life of the mother.