Trump’s executive order on gender uses language pointing to ‘fetal personhood’
by Carter Sherman from US news | The Guardian on (#6TRYD)
Words at conception' in order gesture to push by anti-abortion movement to give embryos and fetuses legal rights
One of Donald Trump's new executive orders, which claims there are only two genders, quietly incorporates tenets of fetal personhood - the legal doctrine, pushed by the anti-abortion movement, that life begins at conception and that embryos and fetuses therefore deserve full legal rights and protections.
Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell," reads the order, which was issued just hours after Trump took office on Monday. Male' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell."
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