Having the state intrude to confer rights to a fetus at 13 weeks but choosing to not intrude to confer rights to one with extreme defects seems to be a blatant violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Is this conferring rights only if we like the way you look on an ultrasound? That doesn't seem to pass muster with equal protection under the law, inalienable rights and so on.
Fetus, you may have inalienable rights, what do you say we get to know each other a little better and see.
While I am often uncomfortable with it, I am pretty much in the camp that women have the right to kill their fetus up until the point the fetus is "viable".
It is messy, but no less messy than any alternative I have seen or heard, and given the disproportionate burden placed on one gender, I'm inclined to let that particular aspect of life fall outside the purview of the state.
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