How in the Hell are We Supposed to Grant Fertilized Eggs
Constitutional Rights?  The state legislatures of Virginia and
Oklahoma have continued to embarrass their reasonable
constituents this week by passing legislation that defines
fertilized eggs as "persons" eligible for the same rights as
normal humans that aren't multicelled, consciousless globs.
Framers of Personhood bills believe that their new laws would
outlaw abortion, and they're right— but I don't think they
realize just how complicated it would be if all constitutional
rights were granted to prepeople. How messy could it get? Let's
take a look at the Bill of Rights and find out.  My theoretical
fetal cobody inhabitor (or, in the future dystopian world we
inhabit: "Interior Person") would be free to practice the
religion he or she chose, but would the government be required
to remove the biological barriers to exercising those rights?
And developing technology so that we could glean what that
zygote's desire is? I would hate to force my uterine st