 protect all humans equally based on their statutes. So fetuses get the protection as well because they are human beings. This is what's being missed here. The Arizona Supreme Court missed it. That's where they could have ruled. They could have said, look, you've got statutes that supposedly punish people for hurting other people and taking their lives. The 14th Amendment requires that we have equal protection under the law. Therefore, killing of a fetus is unconstitutional. It is illegal.