"QUESTION: Do you think the case is over for you? You’ve lost your case, then, if the fetus or the embryo is not a person, is that it MR. FLOWERS: Yes, sir, I would say so. QUESTION: You mean the State has no interest of its own that it can assert, and -- MR. FLOWERS: Oh, we have interests, Your Honor, preventing promiscuity, say maybe that’s -- QUESTION: Mr. Flowers, your Legislature apparently, or you’re asserting that your State law wants to protect the life of the fetus. MR FLOWERS: Yes, sir. QUESTION: And under State law there is some right - MR. FLOWERS: Yes, sir. QUESTION: And under State law there is some right – that there are some rights given to the fetus. MR. FLOWERS: Yes, sir. QUESTION: And you are asserting those rights against the right of the mother. MR. FLOWERS: Balancing against the Ninth Amendment rights of the mother within the framework -- QUESTION: But that’s wholly aside from whether the fetus is a person under the federal Constitution. You can still assert those rights, whether the fetus is a person or not. MR. FLOWERS: Yes, sir."
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