Bottone’s protest highlighted the hypocrisy of fetal personhood logic that gives fetuses rights in cases of abortion but not in other contexts. To end abortion in all instances, with no exceptions for rape, incest, fatal fetal abnormalities, or the life of the mother. Kansas had one as well, but voters there overwhelmingly voted to preserve abortion rights in their state in August. Wendy Davis, a Texas state senator at the time, speaks during her 13-hour filibuster of an abortion bill in Austin, Texas, in 2013. What might the penalties be if a pregnant person consumes alcohol or uses drugs while pregnant?

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