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An Arizona personhood law from 2021 would define any biological phase after conception, including fetuses, embryos, and fertilized eggs as “people.” The law remains blocked by the courts.
Fetal rights (alternatively prenatal rights [1]) are the moral rights or legal rights of the human fetus under natural and civil law. The term fetal rights came into wide usage after Roe v. Wade , the 1973 landmark case that legalized abortion in the United States and was essentially overturned in 2022.
It passed into law on April 1, 2004, and is codified under two sections of the United States Code: Title 18, Chapter 1 (Crimes), §1841 (18 USC 1841), and the Uniform Code of Military Justice: Title 10, Chapter 22 §919a (Article 119a). The law was both hailed and vilified by legal observers who interpreted the measure as a step toward granting ...
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court decided not to take up a case on the so-called fetal personhood debate. In 2019, a Catholic group and two pregnant women sued the state of Rhode Island, arguing that ...
The justices turned away an appeal by a Catholic group and two women of a lower court's ruling holding that fetuses lacked the proper legal standing to challenge a 2019 state law codifying the ...
The 1821 abortion law of Connecticut was the first known law passed in the United States to restrict abortion. Although this law did not completely outlaw abortions, it placed heavier restrictions, as it prevented people from attempting or receiving abortions, which was generally through the consumption of poison, during the first four months ...
Ten states have introduced legislation banning abortion based on fetal personhood, according to the Guttmacher Institute. But the battle over the legal rights of fetuses versus the rights of the ...
In 2025, states with abortion bans are expected to push for explicit fetal rights in the law. In Oklahoma, abortion is banned under a 1910 criminal law that calls for two to five years in prison.