“There were legal cases on the books back in Colonial times that said a fetus does not become a person until birth.”
As expected, you cannot cite them because their existence is a myth-one that you repeated and should correct.
Not even the proaborts and all their cronies, on or off the court, could find any such “legal cases.”
Try reading the “decision” for yourself before making such false statements.
OK, I took up your challenge. I’ll concede that I was wrong that the dividing line was birth. However, it was not conception, either. According to the commentators on the common law, including Blackstone, the dividing line was “quickening,” which is essentially when the baby begins to kick. After that time, it was a misdemeanor to kill the fetus. Before that time, it wasn’t even that.
Finding a copy of a case that old on the internet would be nearly impossible, but I believe Blackstone when he says that was the law at the time. Afterall, Blackstone’s commentaries themselves were and are widely used by the courts as authority on the common law, and he had no ax to grind.
The reason that a fetus was not regarded as a “person” in those days was relatively simple: Most pregnancies did not end in live births.