The appellee and certain amici argue that the fetus is a "person" within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. In support of this, they outline at length and in detail the well known facts of fetal development. If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment. The appellant conceded as much on reargument.
There is NOTHING to stop Congress from acknowledging the personhood of the unborn; it doesn't need to go back to the Supreme Court, it just needs to be done.
You are of course right. And yet here we are, 40 plus years later without that action. Without those words codified into law. And we both have a pretty good feel for why and the nature of the codependency between ProLife Inc and antiLife Inc.
Actually, you posted something on that some months ago that I thought was extremely insightful. Could I humbly ask you to put it out as a vanity/FReeper editorial?