In Texas, after a drunk driver crashed his truck into the car of a woman who was seven months pregnant, the baby was delivered through cesarean section. The baby died two days later. In court, it took the jury one hour to convict the drunk driver of manslaughter for the baby's death and he was sentenced to 16 years. What is so difficult to understand is that the lady could have had an abortion and no criminal charges would have been filed. It seems the issue of the baby's life is up for some arbitrary decision.
Life does seem to be an arbitrary choice.
Laws were passed in Michigan aimed specifically at stopping Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in the suicide of terminally ill people. Dr. Kevorkian never killed anyone. He simply hooked up a person to a machine and let that person decide when to flip a switch. This has created a big stink in society, however. We question whether it's right for someone to end his life and especially whether it's right for another person to help with that.