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ACLU challenges Rhode Island fetus as person ruling
The ACLU seeks to overturn a lower court decision that a fetus is a person under Rhode Island reckless driving law in a Portsmouth crash dating February 21, 1979. Kathleen Kenney, nine months pregnant, saw her fetus die after her car collided with Amaro’s vehicle.
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ACLU
Supreme Court
Rhode Island
Brown
Portsmouth
Amaro
Kathleen Kenney
Middletown