Richard and Curtis Leave no Question a Young Fetus is a Person

    While the Supreme Court readies a decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization, one wonders if the one-year anniversary of another event in the abortion debate isn't bigger than the High Court's upcoming ruling.

   A baby named Richard Hutchinson was born 131 days premature. Another baby, Curtis Means, was born 132 days premature -- that means they were born just 21 weeks into the pregnancies. Both weighed just ounces and fitted into the palms of their mothers' hands. 

   Can a fetus survive if it born so early? Richard and Curtis prove it can. They were not only born way early, but did not die once they were born. They claimed their spot in the Guinness World Records, with Curtis holding the title by a day.

   Richard and Curtis's cases not only add fire supporting Dobbs in the Dobbs vs. Jackson case, but are significant in their own right. Abortion activists have argued that a baby's humanity starts with the capability to survive outside the womb. Well, how about Richard and Curtis being born 131 and 132 days premature? This is evidence enough that a fetus so far removed from normal birth time is a person and a human and a living being. This leaves no question about it.