Mocking human life, how progressive.
(CNSNews.com) — Kathleen Turner, actress and chairwoman of Planned Parenthood’s Board of Advocates, criticized “personhood” legislation, which defines life as beginning at conception and ending at natural death, and asked how a human embryo would know it had such personhood rights.
At the National Press Club on Wednesday, Turner spoke about reproductive rights and mocked the idea of a “personhood” law.
“And then we have the so-called ‘personhood’ bills,” she said. “Now these would give full legal rights to a zygote, at the moment sperm meets egg. Frankly, I have always wondered, ‘How do they know?’”
Turner continued, “The personhood movement not only proposes to redefine pregnancy as occurring at the moment of fertilization, even though up to half of fertilized eggs do not result in a sustainable pregnancy. But also once a zygote — weeks away from a potential pink plus sign on a stick — to be recognized as a complete human being with equal rights.”