Because it would apply only to federal crimes, like kidnapping across state lines, it would have little impact on most crimes against pregnant women, which typically revolve around domestic violence. It would be less effective than a law the multiplied penalties for an attack on pregnant women because it will be harder to prove that any damage resulting to a fetus was the result of the attack than it will be to prove that an attack had simply happened. But in reality its value to its sponsors is not as an effective law anyway, but as a legal precedent to wield against Roe v. Wade. Like the phony attacks on partial birth abortion and excessive regulations governing abortion clinics and RU-486, its sole purpose is to slow down and finally abort a woman's right to choose. The US Senate should understand this and abort it first, recognizing that humans are born, not made.
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