That highlights the blatant contradiction that was very
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common in the laws of many states not all that long ago.
They had laws that imposed criminal penalties for the killing of an unborn child in the womb through negligence and even harsher criminal penalties for intentionally doing so.
I believe I remember reading of one case where someone killed the mother, resulting also in the death of her unborn child. The state went for the death penalty which became an option because he had murdered two people. If she was the only person killed a long prison sentence was the most extreme sentence possible.
I remember another case, in St. Louis metro if I recall, where the father of the child had been pressuring his girlfriend to have their child killed via abortion. She refused. When she was getting off of a bus her ran up and hit her with a baseball bat in the stomach. She miscarried, and the baby died. He was prosecuted for murder, I believe.
Cases like those came up, and the pro-lifers, rightly noted the hypocrisy of calling the unborn child a child when the mother wanted her child, and calling him/her a "blob of tissue" when the mother (or significant others) did not want her child.
This caused a lot of cognitive dissonance, so states started changing their laws to pretend that the child wasn't really a child anymore.
It was very common not long ago for people to say that a mother was "with child" when she was pregnant.