Recently there have been efforts in several states to legally extend rights to any egg that happens to get fertilized. While this is mainly intended to end abortion, passing "personhood" legislation would be severely harmful for women in more ways than one.

Colorado has defeated personhood amendments twice in the past few years, and similar legislation may be voted on soon in Alabama and Mississippi. The group Personhood USA is hoping to raise that count to nearly half of all states by 2012.