The human personhood movement seeks to restore the original intent of the Constitution by defining every human being as a "person" from his or her biological beginning. Although human personhood is not a new concept, the human personhood movement has recently been reignited, is spreading quickly and is gaining momentum.
The need to amend the Constitution by clarifying the definition of personhood can be explained by visiting a landmark Supreme Court decision. In 1965, the United States Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, suddenly found the "right to privacy" in sexual matters in the "emanations" from "penumbras" (shadows) allegedly found in the Constitution.
Griswold v. Connecticut made human beings property again. Human beings can be owned in test tubes and wombs. They can be used involuntarily as test objects, destroyed for their stem cells, genetically modified, cloned, dissected and stripped of their dignity.
This so-called "right to privacy" was invoked by the Supreme Court in 1973, in Roe v. Wade, to decriminalize abortion in the United States.
