the birthed infant taking in breath is a legally meaningful action that causes the law to recognize an infant as a human. preventing with deliberation, an infant capable of breathing from taking or attempting this act, is a crime against the legal human life which would have resulted. aborting a 8 week fetus is not a crime against a legal human. thus, the law is pretty simple. however, it's still immoral to abort a fetus which is a life, it's just not a life that's comprehensible to the law. it's specifically a religious category, and crimes against god are punishable by god alone. the law is a tool which uses the model of divine justices for guidance, but is a human technology designed to minimize violence and disorder. it has its own constraints and this is one of them.
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