What does Rand Paul have in common with an Abraham Lincoln impersonator who reimagined the Gettysburg Address to be about fetuses and the author of B-rate dystopian fiction about a “subclass of human-animal hybrids” forced into menial labor in a world that no longer values “the sanctity of human life”? They all believe fertilized eggs have full legal rights under the 14th Amendment, a legal and political concept so extreme that most mainstream anti-choice organizations won’t touch it during an election year.

Rand Paul has aligned himself with a movement considered too fringe even by extremists like National Right to Life