If the child had died, or been killed, prior to emerging from the mother, there would have been no murder. The baby was not yet human. Also, I am aware that in many hospitals, in one area of the hospital what is in the mother's womb is put to death as one destroys an animal pest, while in another part of the same hospital heroic efforts are made, using the latest in scientific technology, to save what is in the womb as one would make an effort to save any human. I am beginning to say that the older I get, the less I understand. Someone has said, and I agree with them, that humans don't beget snakes or pesky raccoons, or dogs.
Humans beget humans, so that what is in the womb is a human.
A very small, helpless human, but human nevertheless. And humans are pretty small and helpless after they are born too. I am open to a thoughtful discussion about what is in the womb. At one point in my life I came to know Hmong people, who are from Laos. They are not Laotians, they are a different people, but they come from the country of Laos.