Pro-choice activist Linda Layne wrote:
“Because antiabortion activists base their argument on the presence of fetal, and even more importantly, embryonic personhood, feminists have studiously avoided anything that might imply or concede such a presence.
The fear, in the context of pregnancy loss, is that if one were to acknowledge that there was something of value lost, something worth grieving in a miscarriage, one would thereby automatically accede the inherent personhood of embryos and fetuses.”
Linda Layne Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America (New York: Rutledge, 2003) 240
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