 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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State law expanded to cover fetuses
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JACKSON, Miss. -- The Mississippi Supreme Court, in a decision
criticized by one of its members as an assault on Roe v. Wade, held
Thursday that a fetus is a "person" under state law and wrongful
death claims can be filed on its behalf.
The justices upheld Tracy Tucker's right to pursue a wrongful
death claim after she alleged emotional distress and a mistake by her
doctors caused her to have a miscarriage in 1997. The fetus was 19
weeks old at the time, according to doctors.
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