Of more interest to me was Mike Suckabee's vow to immediately grant personhood to fertilized eggs through the 14th amendment:
"I think the next president ought to invoke the Fifth, and 14th Amendments to the Constitution now that we clearly know that that baby inside the mother's womb is a person at the moment of conception."
"The reason we know that it is is because of the DNA schedule that we now have clear scientific evidence on. And, this notion that we just continue to ignore the personhood of the individual is a violation of that unborn child's Fifth and 14th Amendment rights for due process and equal protection under the law."
What Mike Huckabee Means By Giving 14th Amendment Rights To Fetuses
"But if Huckabee’s dubious legal strategy were to work, the consequences would be enormous. Not only would granting “personhood” to fetuses ban abortion in all but the rarest case where a pregnant woman and a fetus are both in mortal danger, it would put women who suffer miscarriages at risk of prosecution and jail time.
The ambiguous wording of such measures has led many to fear that they could also outlaw common forms of birth control."
But..but..according to a couple DSF members, there is no evidence that there are conservatives who want to make certain artificial birth control methods illegal
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"All those differences are exactly what Keith Mason wants to change. He's president of Personhood USA, a group that's trying to rewrite the laws and constitutions of every state — and some countries — to recognize someone as a person "exactly at creation," he says. "It's fertilization; it's when the sperm meets the egg."
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"But if Personhood USA achieves its goal, says Grossman, who also works for the reproductive rights group Ibis Reproductive Health, it could threaten the use of a long list of commonly used contraceptives, including some birth control pills and the intrauterine device."
"This redefinition really could end up reclassifying all of these effective and safe birth control methods as abortifacients, or agents that induce abortions," he says."
"That's because some of those methods not only may act to prevent fertilization but, if fertilization does occur, may prevent that fertilized egg from implanting in a woman's uterus."
Abortion Foes Push To Redefine Personhoo
