State Abortion Bans Cause Confusion While Anti-Abortion Activists Push for Fetal Personhood

The New York Times quoted Jenny Ma, senior staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Elisabeth Smith, the Center’s director of state policy and advocacy, in recent articles about post-Roe abortion law in the U.S. The articles cover the recent push from anti-abortion activists to enact fetal personhood laws, as well as the ongoing confusion caused by abortion bans.

Read the articles:

• The New York Times: ‘I’m Carrying This Baby Just to Bury It’: The Struggle to Decode Abortion Laws, 8.19.22
• The New York Times: Is a Fetus a Person? An Anti-Abortion Strategy Says Yes., 8.21.22