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that because the anti-abortion crowd has met defeat after defeat in its attempt to outlaw abortion that they've given up. The next scheme on their agenda to reduce women to second-class status is to change state laws to declare a fertilized egg a "person" in need of legal protections.

Can you even fathom what would happen to our tax laws, Social Security eligibility (since one would typically be nine months old at birth given the redefinition), criminal liability of pregnant women, just to name a few?

These people want to outlaw abortion, and they figure pulling such mischief as this will achieve their ends, but what they are proposing is even more crackpot than the simple outlawing of abortion.