You can kill your unborn baby with impunity, but you cannot merely injure it. When a legal abortionist botches his job and the baby is live-born and damaged, he is liable for civil prosecution, but I recall no criminal prosecutions. It is surely devoid of logic. One can also imagine the pro-abortion camp secretly delighting in these Supreme Court decisions. With the tide of opinion beginning to set against them how nice to have the police state image, no, the police state reality, to use against us.
Casuistry is inescapable.
This S.C. law is a case of bad law begetting bad law. Given the widespread mystique regarding prenatal care mentioned above, the number of maternal behaviors that can be advanced as detrimental to her unborn baby is huge. Reliance upon the common sense and good graces of the police cum prenatal care establishment is leaning on a slender reed. I believe that the pragmatic concerns over womb police are realistic though probably not immediate. We are pointed in the direction of Red China with its community watchers on each block who try to track the menstruation or midriff of young women in service to population control.