“Wrongful Death” for Helping a Friend Get an Abortion

Mitchell's broader ambition in the wrongful death lawsuit may be judicial recognition of fetal personhood, or classifying fetuses as equal to people with protected constitutional rights, according to Mary Ziegler, abortion historian and law professor at the University of California, Davis. Comstock, while a parallel strategy, helps push the similar view that all abortion violates federal criminal law. Fetal personhood has been the defining end goal of the anti-abortion movement since the 1960s, and with Roe's demise, extremists have an unprecedented opportunity to achieve it...

https://theintercept.com/2023/04/26/abortion-wrongful-death-texas-lawsuit/