Chris Reilly is director of development at American Life League and has a forthcoming book on eugenics.
"Personhood" is a concept that has been around for awhile in the pro-life community. Unfortunately, it has not yet achieved recognition as a legitimate, strategic way of communicating the humanity of the baby within the movement or with the general public. It deserves to do so. Personhood is, quite simply, as the dictionary says, "the state or condition of being a person." If you are a person, then you have personhood.
Date posted: 2013-08-24