Is an Unborn Baby Protected?

                                                                                                                                                                      Vol. VI, No. 8, October 1993

The SBC Christian Life Commission has joined a brief asking the Supreme Court to accept a case to determine whether an unborn child is a legally protected person from the time of conception. Written by the University Faculty for Life, the brief contends each human is a person from fertilization with a constitutional right to life. "The 14th Amendment prohibits the states from denying a `person' of life, liberty, or property without due process of law," said Michael Whitehead, the CLC's general counsel. "The Court, since Roe, has artfully dodged the medical-legal issue of whether an unborn child is a ‘person' within the meaning of the 14th Amendment and hence entitled to constitutional protection." [BP]