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red,, the distinction with your question comes down to"when is a person a person?"
In this country, legally, it is after they are born, not before. Mostly, there have been some cases that fuzzed this up a bit, but by & large that's how it is.
So if anyone seriously proposed a law like that, what they would be doing, as defined by our laws, would be to attempt to legalize murder.
With an abortion, the person isn't, just yet. So legally it is not considered a murder.
That's the distinction & it's why such a law will never pass here, which makes the question & comparison irrelevant. It won't happen, period, so why argue about it?
People who fundamentally oppose abortion believe that you are a person once conceived. People who do not believe that you are a person once born. I think that unless & until those people change their views on that, you'll have this gulf that won't be crossed.
Science and common sense tells us life begins at conception. If further evidence is needed one only has to look at children who have been born several months premature and gone on to live long, productive lives. Consider also those children who actually SURVIVED an attempted abortion- and carried the permanent scars inflicted by a heartless butcher out to make some cash, also leading productive lives. The subject may be "fuzzy" in the court system, but it's really black and white. Or, life and DEATH.