The seven-months-pregnant officer reported contraction-like pains at work, but said she wasn’t allowed to leave for hours. The anti-abortion state is fighting her lawsuit, in part by saying her fetus didn’t clearly have rights.

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    "So far, the U.S. Supreme Court has skirted the issue. It refused to take up a related case out of Rhode Island in October, and Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the Dobbs ruling that it “is not based on any view about if and when prenatal life is entitled to any of the rights enjoyed after birth.”

    Now, Ziegler says, we see Texas arguing against fetal rights when it’s being sued for the death of an unborn child."

    And that proves it. Anti abortion laws are only about control. If a fetus can’t have rights of a born person, then having an abortion is not murder. Period end of story. It’s about control and pandering to the forced birth crowd.