When mere “heartbeat bills” seem acceptable next to “personhood bills” — that’s an intentional strategy and it ain’t new. This article is a recitation of horrors and it’s not even comprehensive of all possibilities. But there’s a meta angle to keep in mind. Georgia’s Kemp & Co. (Ohio, Alabama, etc.) might actually want total bans but they know they are unlikely to survive legal challenges *today*.
What they are collectively hoping to do with these badly and baldly written laws is to move the cultural needle back from the progress Americans have made in favor of women’s autonomy and back toward controls being considered normal and reasonable. And thus to culture-proof future legal decisions made by the overwhelmingly right-wing judiciary they are building federally and in many states.
Amy Winns 