Saving personhood

FORSYTHE: Saving personhood - Washington Times: The Alabama Supreme Court’s unanimous decision last month in a case called Mack v. Carmack might surprise some Americans. The court held that an unborn child at any time of pregnancy is a person protected by Alabama’s wrongful-death laws. Wrongful-death statutes - which virtually every state has - allow family members to sue for money damages for the death of a “person.”

. . . State protection of the unborn child as a person is no longer a novel thing. It grows year by year, state by state, and the public supports it.Far from being newly minted in Mississippi, recognition of the personhood of the unborn child is a movement as old as English common law, with a long tradition of acknowledging the value that such children hold for their expectant parents and family.

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