What the Hell is Fetal Personhood?

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Oct 6, 202600:10:36Government & Organizations

In this Office Hours episode of Baby Boom! Lawyered, Imani Gandy explains how the law decide who counts as a person, from corporations and Alabama’s “extrauterine children” to a fetus in Florida whose lawyer tried to spr...

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