(FORTUNE Magazine) – JEFFERSON CITY, MO. -- A lawyer for a female inmate said yesterday his pregnant client's fetus is illegally imprisoned because Missouri's antiabortion law says life begins at conception. ''If life begins at conception, then fetuses . . . have constitutional rights,'' said Michael Box after filing the federal lawsuit this week on behalf of Lovetta Farrar, who was convicted of forgery and theft . . . Along with declaring that life begins at conception, Missouri's antiabortion law . . . extends to the unborn ''all the rights, privileges and immunities available to other persons.'' Arguing that Farrar's unborn child has committed no crime, Box said, ''I think . . . courts are eventually going to have to rule on it.'' -- From an AP dispatch.