A teenager in Alabama is suing an abortion clinic for terminating the life of his unborn child against his wishes.

Fox News reports that an Alabama county court recognised the aborted foetus, “Baby Roe,” as a plaintiff in the lawsuit, making the case one of the first of its kind, his lawyer said.

Ryan Magers, 19, claims his girlfriend got a medicated abortion at the Alabama Women’s Centre for Reproductive Alternatives in Huntsville in February 2017 when she was six weeks pregnant, according to legal documents, even though he urged her not to terminate the pregnancy.

Alabama recognises the personhood of a foetus, so Mr Magers is suing on behalf of the foetus and himself.

“Baby Roe’s innocent life was taken by the profiteering of the Alabama Women’s Centre and while no court will be able to bring Baby Roe back to life, we will seek the fullest extent of justice on behalf of Baby Roe and Baby Roe’s father,” lawyer Brent Helms said in a statement. “The time is ripe for consistency in Alabama’s jurisprudence: either we fully acknowledge the personhood of the unborn or we cherry pick which innocents we protect and which ones we trash for profit.”

Judge Frank Barger allowed Mr Magers to name his aborted child as a co-plaintiff in his case against Alabama Women’s Centre, a move that came just four months after the passage of an amendment that gave foetuses personhood, or the same legal rights as any other person, under the state constitution.

Mr Helms believes the case could make it to the Supreme Court.

“I’m here for the men who actually want to have their baby,” Mr Magers told WAAY 31. “I believe every child from conception is a baby and deserves to live.”

But the case has alarmed pro-choice activists.

On Twitter, Ilyse Hogue, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, called it a “very scary case” that is “asserting woman’s rights third in line.”

Breaking: Alabama allows a suit from man AND fetus against abortion clinic where his girlfriend terminated her pregnancy. First under Alabama's new personhood law, asserting woman's rights third in line. Very scary case. https://t.co/xXCSyJN3AQ — ilyse hogue (@ilyseh) March 5, 2019

Others called it “unlawful and idiotic.”

Personhood Alabama spokeswoman Hannah Ford told LifeSiteNews with the recent abortion debates after New York and other states have pushed for lifting restrictions on abortions, this case is a “timely reminder that every single abortion committed is a chilling assault on a precious and innocent human life — an intolerable violation of the most basic, God-given human right, the right to life.”

The abortion clinic has until April 1 to respond to the suit.

This article originally appeared on Fox News and is republished here with permission