The Terrifying Convergence of Fetal Personhood Laws and Abortion Bans

In March, when Georgia police arrested a 31-year-old mother, alleged that she’d had an abortion, and charged her with murder, the woman’s mugshot circulated far faster than the facts did. An officer with the Kingsland police claimed that in December, they had been “alerted to suspicious circumstances involving a pregnant female patient” by a hospital security guard. At the time, according to a police report reviewed by The New Republic, the police seized a pill bottle containing misoprostol, an...