Georgia Says A Fetus Is A Person. The Implications Are Terrifying.

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This Huffpost article reports on the dangerous provision in Georgia’s abortion ban that recognizes an embryo or fetus as a person after six weeks of pregnancy and “paves the way for criminalizing pregnant people.”

Alice Wang, staff attorney at the Center and a litigator in the case challenging the Gerogia law, said, “It is unclear how the personhood provision might be applied, and this lack of clarity is by design: It invites arbitrary and aggressive enforcement by prosecutors and creates a climate of fear and confusion.”

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