The widespread existence of fetal homicide laws, when considered next to current abortion law, creates for the U.S. a form of legal schizophrenia that is both tragic and bizarre. It boggles the mind that a culture as "advanced" and "intelligent" as ours could live with such a blatant double standard, a double standard that is enshrined in law. Either unborn children are people before they're born (in which case fetal homicide laws are just and abortion laws are not), or unborn children are not people before they're born (in which case abortion laws are just and fetal homicide laws are not). You can't have it both ways, but we do. It is absolutely absurd. More than anything, this strange legal partnership makes it clear that, for all the arguments that are made about why unborn children should not be given rights of personhood, this isn't the issue at all. The only thing that matters is the will of the mother. If the mother wants the child, it is a person. Those who harm it will be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law. If the mother doesn't want the child, it isn't a person. It can be torn limb from limb with full legal impunity, no questions asked. The child is exactly the same in both scenarios, it is only the affections of the mother which are changed. Do you see the problem with this? Do you see a problem with basing one person's right to life on nothing else but the whims of another? - Abort73.com II. Facts About Abortion 2. Fetal Homicide Laws

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As a woman who has experienced several early miscarriages, I have come face to face with this type of schizophrenic thinking. The death of an unborn child is either a woman's right or a tragic loss depending completely on how the woman feels. When a woman becomes pregnant and decides she'd rather not be, it is a difficult, yet acceptable decision to have an abortion, after all it is her right. When a woman has a miscarriage, it is a horrible tragedy that is difficult to move past.  There is a huge disconnect here and it seems to be based entirely on how the woman feels.

Wow. I'm disgusted that so many women are deceived on this issue, yet I'm reminded that but for the grace of God, there go I. There was nothing in me to keep me from this type of sin, my flesh is just as easily deceived.  Were it not for God choosing me, redeeming me and continually sanctifying me I may have believed the abortion lie too. Praise God for His mercy!