Obesity, Pregnancy and Fetal Personhood

A new article in The Awl, Real America, with Abe Sauer: Fat, Fetuses and Felonies, presents some of the research on the risk of obesity to birth outcomes and presents the threat that "fetal personhood" legislation might pose to obese women who become pregnant (especially through artificial reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization). NAPW's executive director is quoted in the article, providing her analysis of fetal personhood.