 And it suggests that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, the Equal Protection Amendment passed during Reconstruction after the Civil War, protects fetuses. It protects embryos. And that is a tenet of the anti-abortion movement's fetal personhood goal. The platform that the RNC adopted says that the 14th Amendment can be used to justify state abortion bans. They're trying to have it both ways. Not the 14th Amendment, but also say this is a state's issue.