Barack Obama in Politico.com

On Abortion: 1990: Wrote law article that fetus cannot sue mother

The six-page summary considers the charged, if peripheral, question of whether fetuses should be able to file lawsuits against their mothers. Obama’s answer, like most courts’: No. He wrote approvingly of an Illinois Supreme Court ruling that the unborn cannot sue their mothers for negligence, and he suggested that allowing fetuses to sue would violate the mother’s rights and could, perversely, cause her to take more risks with her pregnancy.

Obama’s article, which begins on pg.823 of Vol.103 of the Harvard Law Review, is available in libraries.