Although the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution holds that women have the right to pursue an abortion, the reality of politics at the state level can make this right complicated.
For anti-abortion legislators, the strategy to fight the effects of the Supreme Court's decision in the 1974 case of Roe vs. Wade involves establishing the legal "personhood" of a fetus. According to Time, this personhood means that as soon as an egg is fertilized, it becomes a person with rights.
In the case of Georgia's state legislature, these competing legal rights have recently come to a head. And one state representative has a special response to that clash.