From Missouri to Texas, the wages of forced-birth fanaticism

Anyone who still doesn’t understand that the newly empowered forced-birth movement is inherently oppressive, cruel and at times literally life-threatening to women should look carefully at what elected officials are trying to do today in Missouri and in Texas. In Missouri, state lawmakers have filed legislation that would give full legal rights of personhood to fertilized eggs — meaning women who end their pregnancies at any point, for almost any reason, could face murder charges and, potentially, the death penalty. And a Texas woman’s quest to end a pregnancy that is medically nonviable and h...