Chuck Darwin<p>By describing a fetus as a person from conception, Trump has legitimized <a href="https://c.im/tags/fetal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fetal</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personhood</span></a>. </p><p>Pro-abortion activists have long warned that fetal personhood, <br>an ideology that calls for providing equal human rights to a fetus <br>(even if it’s a cluster of cells), <br>will effectively strip pregnant people of their own rights. </p><p>The legal language employed by fetal personhood also effectively categorizes any person receiving an abortion at any stage as a <a href="https://c.im/tags/murderer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>murderer</span></a>.</p><p>But the concept of fetal personhood is not only weaponized to limit abortion access<br>—it’s also been leveraged at the state level to restrict in vitro fertilization ( <a href="https://c.im/tags/IVF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IVF</span></a> ) access for intended parents in places such as Alabama, <br>and even used to limit access to forms of <a href="https://c.im/tags/birth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birth</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>control</span></a>. <br>In May, the Texas GOP attempted to transform fetal personhood into law, claiming that “abortion is not healthcare, it is homicide,” <br>and called on lawmakers to extend “equal protection of the laws to all preborn children from the moment of fertilization"</p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/190506/donald-trump-fetal-personhood-executive-order" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/post/190506/do</span><span class="invisible">nald-trump-fetal-personhood-executive-order</span></a></p>