Legal Source #16 – Federal Court Case

“The most cogent reason, we believe, for holding that a viable unborn child is an entity within the meaning of the general word “person” is because, biologically speaking, such a child is, in fact, a presently existing person, a living human being.”16


16Mitchell v. Couch, 285 S.W.2d 901, 905 (1955).

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