Straight Talk on Life Issues - Beyond Dred Scott: Personhood and Constitutional Protection

Podcasts from Ambassador Ministries · Jul 7, 2026 · 37m

Love the show? Text us your feedback! If equal protection were applied to the unborn, what would enforcement actually look like in American law? The 14th Amendment promises equal protection, but who counts as a “person” when the law is applied to the unborn? This week we sit down with Princeton’s Professor Robert P George, a leading scholar of jurisprudence and constitutional interpretation, alongside Professor John Londregan, to make a careful case that the Constitution’s guarantees should extend to children in the womb, not only to those already born.The core dispute at the heart of the…