Legislators Find Roe v. Wade Loophole

Legislators Find Roe v. Wade Loophole: Dubbed the Life at Conception Act, 105 members of the U.S. Congress co-sponsored the pro-life legislation. The bill aims to leverage the fact that the Supreme Court never actually declared abortion itself to be a constitutional right. In its 1973 abortion decision, the Supreme Court invented a policy that effectively stops any regulation of abortion during the full nine months of pregnancy.

But the Supreme Court also said: "We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins ... the judiciary at this point in the development of man’s knowledge is not in a position to speculate as to the answer." However, the High Court made a key admission in its decision: "If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant’s case [i.e., "Roe" who sought an abortion], of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment." The bottom line: a majority vote is all that is needed to pass a Life at Conception Act to establish personhood beginning at conception.