"The Court in Roe v. Wade held that the recognition of fetal rights would cause the case for abortion rights to "collapse"; in subsequent cases, justices who formed Roe's majority further confirmed that if the humanity of the preborn were established, "the permissibility of terminating the life of a fetus could scarcely be left to the will of the state legislatures" because fetal rights would then be guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment..."
