Pregnant people with low incomes should have access to economic security programs to help them meet their needs. They should also have the freedom to decide whether and when to have children. However, some states are attaching “fetal personhood” provisions to narrow economic benefits, a strategy legal experts warn would help lay the groundwork for a national abortion ban. Lawmakers should reject these efforts to take away access to essential health care and people’s freedom to make decisions about their bodies, lives, and futures. Instead, lawmakers should meaningfully improve economic security programs that support pregnant people and their families without undermining their reproductive freedom.
Of course, but you missed the point. The fascists aren’t blocking abortion because they care about babies. They are blocking abortion because they want to control women, and restrict women’s access to social and political influence.
