Indiana has been amending its feticide laws in the wake of this case. Here’s a link with some more details:
http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20080501/NEWS/805010327
Changing the feticide law would avoid the controversy that arises when lawmakers try to make killing a fetus the same as killing a human being, Karlson said.
“It removes the philosophical debate which has always been created when you try to call it murder, as to whether a nonviable fetus should be considered a human being,” he said.
Good grief. I almost wrote "God grief, by accident and realized the validity of the accidental verbiage.
Evidently the womb is no longer recognized by some people to be necessary for the nurturing of actual human life.