According to the fact that it is in a symbiotic relationship with the mother and will not survive outside of her until it achieve a certain period of gestation. When it is no longer dependent upon her then it is an individual
Why do you think this is a standard ? Babyś have a symbiotic relationship with their parents for years.
The legal standard is personhood, not individuality. What makes a person a person ? In most states, if you kill a pregnant woman, you legally have committed two murders. How can you be found guilty of two murders unless you have killed two people/persons ?
In Roe v Wade, the decision allowing unfettered abortion in the US, the court ruled that for purposes of abortion, only, unborn babies were not persons. Yet the court also said that if advances in medicine, science, and technology proved otherwise, the issue should be revisited.
Medicine now has proven that around the beginning of the second trimester, the unborn have all the physical characteristics of persons, they move, they have a beating heart, they have brain activity, and they feel pain. They are not part of the mothers body, they have a totally different genetic makeup than she and can even have a different blood type.
The Alabama law along with the others has one goal in mind, to get the supreme court to revisit the issue.
Since many pro abortion legal scholars consider Roe a terribly flawed application of the law, many believe the supremes will have to modify it.
Abortion won´t end, but will be restricted to the very early months. That is the pro life hope