The thing with pregnancy is women decide whether it's a baby or a lump of cells based on what they want at the time. If a woman is trying to get pregnant with her husband, and she finds out she's pregnant, it's a baby. It could be 100 cells. It doesn't matter. It's a new human being, and they start picking out names, and making plans. It's not about the number of cells, it's about her and what she wants. If she doesn't want a baby she will allow herself to believe that it's just a lump of cells, so that getting rid of it doesn't seem so terrible. When a woman has a miscarriage, people say "she lost the baby". No one says, hey, cheer up, it was just a lump of cells. So in my view, all of this "woman's right to choose" talk is just self-serving double speak, that allows a woman to change the definition of a human being so that she has the right to kill it if she wants to. And the fact that it's growing in her stomach makes it very hard for anyone to challenge her authority, lest they want to hear her claim that they're trying to take control over her body.
So, yes, I believe that if you punch a pregnant woman, and she loses the baby, you should be charged with murder. If you're a pregnant woman and you intentionally end the life of your child or allow someone else to do it, I think there should be a criminal charge there as well. Just like if you killed your 2 year old or hired someone else to do it. That sounds cruel because we're used to allowing people to have abortions with no consequences. But abortions are cruel and brutal in themselves. I don't think we should retroactively punish women who have already had abortions, but I do think that if abortion was ever banned, that it should become a criminal offense, because it is murder of the most defenseless in our society.
A woman who has a miscarriage that she had no control over should not be punished. That would be unnecessary and cruel.
I know all of that may sound harsh and mean, but I'm all for human rights. And I believe human life begins at conception. Just because you're growing in someone else's womb, doesn't mean they have a right to end your life.