Arthur William Hodge - WikipediaFrom the OP:
“It’s time to emancipate every little unborn baby,” Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said at the hearing.
Actual human children and adults fare less well. The proposal gets rid of an adoption tax credit and ends popular tax deductions on medical spending and student loan interest. Although, perhaps if fetuses can save for college, kids of the future will rack up less in school debt.
These people are batshit crazy!
Killing a pregnant mother can already get a person charged with two murder counts.
So? That would make some sense if the pregnant woman wants the fetus. After all, it's her property.
You cant be charged with murder for destroying property
And
On March 28, 1839, a coroner’s inquest presented at the rural Iredell County, NC farm of Mr. John Hoover, to investigate the alleged death of “one Mira a female slave the property of… the said John Hoover…”. An examination of the freshly exhumed body of Mira, then but one short day dead, led to only one conclusion: Mr. Hoover was “taken into penal custody on the spot, under the capital charge of murder.” In trial before the North Carolina Superior Court, Iredell County, Hoover was convicted of the charge and sentenced to hang.
'For the Murder of His Own Female Slave, a Woman Named Mira…': Slavery, Law and Incoherence in Antebellum Culture by Anthony V. Baker :: SSRN
Things have changed since the Republicans won the Civil War and declared human beings aren’t property.