The Fetal Personhood Bill Just Introduced in Congress, Explained

glamour.com:

took office on January 20, several extreme anti-abortion bills were filed in the House of Representatives, including a fetal personhood bill.Filed by some of the most hardline anti- representatives in Congress, one bill ——stood out as particularly drastic.

HR 722 seeks to codify into law what is colloquially known as . This is the idea that a human being exists from the moment of conception, granting the fetus the same legal rights as a person.While many people flagged the bills—especially HR 722—as extremely concerning, experts believe it’s not time for pro-choice advocates to panic just yet.“There is no way [these bills] can pass the Senate, and maybe no way they can pass the House,” Robert M.

Shrum, a political strategist and the director of the Center for the Political Future at the University of Southern California, tells Glamour., a professor at George Washington University Law School, agrees.“I think there's no question that there are those who want to push a personhood bill, but I don't think they're going to have the votes for that,” she says.Glamour consulted with Shrum and Suter about what these bills mean, what the authors are trying to do, and what we should be paying attention to as the Trump administration moves forward.The most prominent of these bills, , filed by Republican Rep.

Eric Burlison of Missouri, would “implement equal protection under the 14th article of amendment to the Constitution for the right to life of each born and preborn human person,” aka fetal personhood.