Well then, prepare to stand corrected again...
Actually I supported it with two links, but as those cases seem to have left you less than impressed let us see what the gov't
actually has to say on the subject. It doesn't seem to match well with how you have been presenting it. To wit:
The little human is a person while in the womb with a right to life and killing it (other than "legal" abortion) is a crime and not an "injury to the mother" as you propose.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/...tate-laws.aspx
"Common references to such laws include the Fetal Protection Act, the Preborn Victims of Violence Act and the Unborn Victim of Violence Act. Those supporting these laws say that
both the lives of the pregnant woman and the fetus should be explicitly protected. They assert that fetal homicide laws justly criminalize these cases and address both unborn children and their mothers."
Further, the distinction you propose as to the "value of the life increasing over time" runs quite counter to actual law:
"At least 29 states have fetal homicide laws that apply to the earliest stages of pregnancy ("any state of gestation/development," "conception," "fertilization" or "post-fertilization");
So, a person from conception in at least 29 states.
In AZ for instance:
" The law specifies that the defendant shall not be released until the completion of 35 years if the murdered person was under 15 years of age
or was an unborn child. The law states that for the purposes of punishment, an unborn child shall be treated like a minor under 12 years of age."
Note there is no reference to the stage of the "unborn child" changing anything in the 38 states referenced.
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