From the perspective of traditional family values, in Ancient Rome you had 8 days after the child was born to decide whether to keep them or to leave them on a

From the perspective of traditional family values, in Ancient Rome you had 8 days after the child was born to decide whether to keep them or to leave them on a mountain to die from exposure and get eaten by vultures. But you couldn’t, say, abuse the child during the first 8 days regardless of whether you were going to keep them or not. I think the NYT is conflating the idea of personhood and equal rights here. There is no logical reason why other rights shouldn’t kick in before the right to life, in the same way that, say, the rights to drive or vote kick in afterwards. Even if the Supreme Court rules in favor of fetus personhood, I don’t see any reason why that should change current abortion policy or somehow grant a fetus equal rights, whatever that would mean.