However, I agree that any law that allows a woman to kill her child should also allow anyone else to kill her child since the law says the matter in the woman is not a life.
Yes. I've made a thread on this in the past, and it's a totally indefensible position, as you state.
My thread centered around the unique case of a woman being able to terminate the life within her, legally, and yet if you do something like kick her stomach and the fetus dies, you're charged with murder. There is a special window of time during which the mother is able to play god and terminate the fetus, but nobody else is. On the one hand the law says it's a meaningless mass of flesh that can be killed at whim, and on the other hand it's a bona fide human being and killing it is murder.
Obviously others have noticed this. I recall a chart and on it it showed the different window of time, based on different state laws, during which killing the fetus was not murder for the mother only, but was for others.
It's patently irrational and makes no sense. Such is the case of law not reflecting common sense, as it should.
The only thing this guy did was practice an abortion without a medical license. He could have brought her to the hospital, paid the bill to the doc, and had those fetuses killed, and yet when he does the same thing it's murder. So in essense we see that a medical license allows a doctor to kill the two kids, but if you don't have one you can't. License to kill. I see so many holes in the logic of charging this guy that if he's actually convicted it will be a total breach of "justice", even if it's by-the-book.
And for the record I'm mostly against abortion, but I don't let that blind me from logic, as this charge is blinded.
