Despite the headline, this has nothing to do with the Dobbs abortion ruling.
Can a fetus be an employee? States are testing the boundaries of personhood after Dobbs
Although Anderson’s family tried to sue the department on her behalf, workers’ compensation laws in Missouri and elsewhere shield employers from wrongful death lawsuits when an employee dies on the job. So the case was also filed on behalf of the 25-year-old woman’s unborn child, a son named Jaxx. This was possible because Missouri law defines life — and legal rights — as beginning at conception.In turn, the lawyers representing the state argued that, since Jaxx was considered a person, his case should be dismissed because under workers’ compensation laws he met the definition of an employee.
Not a prob, Missouri. Now they can sue for back wages for the fetus. And if you’re not going to pay up, then by your idiotic lawyers’ own admission the state is guilty of a violation of MO Rev Stat § 566.206 (2021): involuntary servitude.
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