“Would you send us a get well card or a sympathy card?” That was the question I asked my colleagues in the Wisconsin State Assembly during the debate on a piece of pro-life legislation.

The bill under consideration created a separate crime for someone who took the life of an unborn child while injuring the mother. It came from the case of a pregnant woman who was beaten by her estranged husband. The prosecutors could only charge him for battery against her and not for the death of her unborn child.