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I think you need to do a little better than that. Lat me lay it out since it may not have been stated clearly enough in the past.

This law, for the first time, recognizes that an unborn child is an entity in and of itself. The intention of the anti-abortion groups who championed this bill is to achive this recognition so that in the future more rights may be attributed to a fetus including, possibly, the right not to be killed in the first trimester.

The effect of this is to frame the debate in a different light. Instead of abortion being about a woman's right to do something with her body, it becomes a debate about a woman's right to do something with an entity that is legally recognized to have rights independant of its mother. That's a very serious change, and one that makes banning abortion easier.

I agree that this is a pretty good argument for this kind of law. But I don't think the slippery slope argument can be dispensed with that easily.