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When you drink, the alcohol quickly travels through your bloodstream, crosses the placenta, and reaches your baby. Your baby breaks down alcohol more slowly than you do, so she may end up with a higher level of blood alcohol. Drinking endangers your growing baby in a number of ways: As little as one drink a day can raise the odds of miscarrying or having a baby with a low birth weight, and raise your child's risk of problems with learning, speech, attention span, language, and hyperactivity. That same woman who’s prosecuted for endangering her child is free to abort that same child. It’s illegal to harm your preborn child, but it’s perfectly legal to kill him.
This is an explicit recognition that the unborn is a person with rights, deserving protection even from his mother.
Consider the bizarre implications of this double standard. If a woman is scheduled to get an abortion, but on her way to the abortion clinic her baby is killed inutero, the baby’s killer will be prosecuted for murder. But if this murder doesn’t occur, an hour later the doctor will be paid to perform a legal procedure killing exactly the same child (in a way that is probably more gruesome).
To the child, what’s the difference who kills it?