The Fetus and Federal Regulations

FRC Blog » The Fetus and Federal Regulations: The arcane and involved language of the Code of Federal Regulationsis one reason why so few people read it. Yet within its myriad pages are the rules that govern government itself – how laws are applied, how legislation is to be understood, and even how words used in federal regulations are to be interpreted.

Some of those words are more important than others, and those that deal with the very nature of human personhood are, perhaps, the most important of all. In the October 1, 2009 edition of the Code, we read that “Fetus means the product of conception from implantation until delivery.”