States across the nation are changing their abortion laws.  In Colorado, a state board recently approved preliminary wording for a ballot initiative to ban abortions performed after 22 weeks.  Exceptions would be permitted if a pregnant woman's health is in danger.  Suzanne Staiert, attorney for the proponents of the bill, said she thinks "voters will agree that a fetus at 22 weeks is a person." Staiert has put her finger on the question at the core of the abortion debate: is the fetus a person?  After all, when the Supreme Court made abortion the law of the land in its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, its argument centered on its claim that the fetus is not a person under the 14th Amendment. Essentially, the highest court in the land declared that even though the fetus is human, he is not a person entitled to protection under the law.   How did the Court justify drawing a distinction between being human and being a...(Read Full Post)