According to Michigan Law, when does a fetus/embryo have rights? 
Please include multiple sources if possible, along with search terms.

Thanks!

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 14 Sep 2003 19:57 PDT

Dear wegotqa-ga:

If I understand your question correctly, you are trying to find out
when, according to the State fo Michigan, a fetus FIRST has rights of
ANY kind, correct?

If so, the answer lies in "PUBLIC ACT 0238 OF 1998" in which certain
actions are deemed to be criminal if such acts perpetrated against a
pregnant woman directly result in the miscarriage, injury or death to
her unborn child.

MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/1997-1998/publicact/htm/1998-PA-0238.htm

While this act is formally focused on protecting the pregnant woman,
and on the fetus as an extension of the victim, the fetus clearly
benifits from the act as a legal "right" in the same manner as any
other citizen has a right to be protected from injury or death. Please
examine this Public Act and let me know if it answers your question.

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga

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Clarification of Question by wegotqa-ga on 14 Sep 2003 20:16 PDT

tutuzdad-ga,

That's exactly what I'm looking for.  The answer would be perfect if
you could specify your search terms and strategy for finding the
answer.  Thanks!

Dear wegotqa-ga;

Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question.

The answer lies in "PUBLIC ACT 0238 OF 1998" in which certain actions
are deemed to be criminal if such acts perpetrated against a pregnant
woman directly result in the miscarriage, injury or death to her
unborn child.
 
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE 
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/1997-1998/publicact/htm/1998-PA-0238.htm
 
While this act is formally focused on protecting the pregnant woman,
and on the fetus as an extension of the victim, the fetus clearly
benefits from the act as a legal "right" in the same manner as any
other citizen has a right to be protected from injury or death.

Below you will find that I have carefully defined my search strategy
for you in the event that you need to search for more information. By
following the same type of searches that I did you may be able to
enhance the research I have provided even further. I hope you find
that that my research exceeds your expectations. If you have any
questions about my research please post a clarification request prior
to rating the answer. Otherwise, I welcome your rating and your final
comments and I look forward to working with you again in the near
future. Thank you for bringing your question to us.


INFORMATION SOURCES

MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE 
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/1997-1998/publicact/htm/1998-PA-0238.htm

SEARCH STRATEGY


SEARCH ENGINE USED:

Google ://www.google.com


SEARCH TERMS USED:

MICHIGAN FETUS RIGHTS

Using this search term I located this article from THE DETROIT FREE
PRESS:
http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/nfetus12_20020812.htm
Here the article mentioned “The Michigan Legislature thought so when
it passed a fetus protection law in 1998.”

This indicated that there was in fact a law related to this topic, so
I went to directly to the MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE site
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/

Here I clicked on BILLS on the left side
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=Bills

I scrolled down to BILL FULL TEXT SEARCH and changed the year to
1997-1998, as the article in THE DETROIT FREE PRESS suggested, and I
typed in the search term “fetus”.

The first in the list of returns was “SENATE BILL  0021  (1997)” which
is indicated as being accepted into law on 01/01/99 as “PUBLIC ACT 238
OF 1998”
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=1997-SB-0021&queryid=4603919&highlight=fetus

I scrolled down the page to find “PUBLIC ACT 238 OF 1998” here:
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/1997-1998/publicact/htm/1998-PA-0238.htm

And that, my friend, is how it’s done. I hope you can now consider
this the "perfect answer". Have a great day!

Best regards;
Tutuzdad-ga

This is how it's supposed to be done, great job!  Not only did you
take the time to submit a complete answer, you went well beyond and
clarified your original post with what the information I requested. 
Thank you!