[ConservativeMind]

When someone loses a fetus to a preventable accident, trust me, we will start getting lawsuits in which such a tragedy will be considered either voluntary or involuntary manslaughter as a result.

Without this law, it has been more recently possible to hold others accountable to violence to women carrying a fetus.

This greatly expands the scope of that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_manslaughter

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

If you cause an accident leading to the death of a pregnant woman’s fetus, you can already charged with manslaughter in most states.

The term miscarriage implies that the fetus died of natural causes.