Gardner may attempt to avoid speaking publicly about marriage equality given his recent stated shift on another contentious issue, personhood legislation, which would give legal rights to fertilized eggs.
Notably, coping with change in self-identity and personhood was an issue that many (but not all) participants continued to struggle with for many years, long after physical recovery from the initial injury had plateaued.
All of which opens the door to "personhood" as the defining issue that could lock up Obama's re-election.
In a statement issued by Personhood USA Monday, Personhood spokesperson Jennifer Mason wrote that Coffman's victory is proof that her organization's (and Coffman's) uncompromising stance against abortion, even in the cases of rape and incest, leads to Republican victories.
As a retired obstetrician-gynecologist, I agree that the right to abortion should not hinge on the issue of fetal personhood.
But while he did bring up the issue of fetal personhood -- a topic being debated in many states -- it was clearly with the intention of discussing the topic later in the interview, "in a second".
As an umbrella term encompassing a cluster of traits, personhood obfuscates rather than clarifies the issue of moral and legal responsibility.
