Can a Fetus Be an Employee? States Are Testing the Boundaries of Personhood After ‘Dobbs’

Laws granting rights to unborn children have spread in the decades since the U.S. and Missouri supreme courts allowed Missouri’s definition of life as beginning at conception to stand. Now, a wrongful death lawsuit involving a workplace accident shows how spr…
Bram Sable-SmithCLAYTON, Mo. Kaitlyn Anderson was six months pregnant when a driver killed her and a Missouri Department of Transportation colleague in 2021 while they were doing roadwork near St. Lo…