Dr. Alveda King

In property, wills and estates, the unborn are considered to have rights and may have a guardian appointed. In most states, including California, a tort committed against a child in the womb is actional in civil and an injury is actionable in both civil and criminal law. The only exception to this standard is when the woman choses to abort. This is ridiculous and out of sync with all other law. Even as Dred Scott was considered less than fully human, such is the case for the pre-born babies in the womb. A woman has a right to choose what she does with her body. The baby is not her body. Where is the lawyer for the baby? This is why I support the California Equal Rights Amendment.

 — Dr. Alveda C. King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Founder, King for America