A new push to define 'person,' and to outlaw abortion in the process
Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 21:35
in Mathematics & Economics
Some abortion foes think the rationale for Roe vs. Wade is vulnerable. They're trying to amend state constitutions -- including California's -- to define personhood from conception. It is one of the enduring questions of religion and science, and lately of American politics: When does a fertilized egg become a person?