kengr

That's why I said it opens the door. It doesn't quite claim fetal personhood, but if sex is determined "at conception", then there must be "someone" whose sex they are determining.

Some years back Indiana passed a "fetal endangerment" statute, ostensibly as a way to add an aggravating factor to the murder of a pregnant woman. It was in response to a particularly lucid case in which a man shot his 9 months pregnant partner in the belly, then in the head, in front a a gas station where she'd gone to call police. But oh, no, they would never use that to prosecute women - perish the thought! Now there are women in jail for just that, where they were drug addicted and the baby was stillborn, or in at least one case where the woman attempted suicide, and while she survived the fetus didn't.