"Egg-as-Person" Crusade Drives Big Money to Anti-Choice Groups

TruthOut, R H Reality Check by Wendy Norris | Aug. 17, 2009 (News)

In just five short years, the primary movers and shakers in the absolutist anti-abortion/anti-choice movement seeking to promote the "personhood" of zygotes (the single cell that forms after a sperm fertilizes an egg) have amassed nearly $58 million in tax-deductible contributions for their cause. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Patricia Blochowiak - Aug 19, 2009 - 1:54 PM PDT
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Next thing you know, they'll be asking women to save their menstrual flow and get death certificates, just in case the fluids contained a zygote that died. Since there are so many unidentified early miscarriages, that would, of course, need to be done. Right?

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