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Is the unborn human child a “person” within the legal meaning of the U.S. Constitution? A “person” whom the state may not deprive of life “without due process of law” and to whom the several states owe a constitutional duty of “equal protection of the laws” from the private violence or wrongs of others, or the discrimination of the state? The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization famously overruled the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade creating a constitutional right to abortion. But is there a constitutional human right to life that affirmatively forbids abortion in many or most circumstances? The Dobbs majority expressed deep skepticism of this position. But it is a close, difficult, and exceedingly important question of constitutional law and human rights. Is the legal-personhood position constitutionally plausible?