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By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNews, Jan 22, 2025
Trump’s executive order affirming that sex is unchangeable includes language acknowledging human beings are persons from ‘conception.’
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — President Donald Trump’s new executive order affirming the immutable biological reality of sex includes language recognizing personhood from “conception.”
“‘Female’ means person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell,” the EO “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” (emphasis added) states.
Ethics and Public Theology professor Andrew T. Walker on X called the language a “brilliantly stealth” move.
The U.S. remains without a federal law, amendment, or policy with the express purpose of recognizing personhood explicitly from the moment of conception, and many states continue to permit the killing of human life after conception and before birth through abortion, even though the Constitution recognizes the inherent right of every person to life. ….
