And that didn't stop illegal abortions, did it? A mother is given a precious gift and a sacred obligation, whether her child is pre-born or post separation. In a society that truly values life, the mother is in fact more responsible than is the abortionist. The life of that child is in the mother's hands. How is it that a mother can deliver early and if she lets that child die, it's murder but if she has an abortion at the same stage she doesn't get prosecuted?
I can't imagine how anyone who's truly pro-life isn't going to hold the mother not just morally but criminally responsible.
"Can't imagine?" I can't imagine you've been around long, I mean actually on the front lines of the war against abortion.
I can't think of one person currently active in the prolife movement who would agree with you.
In my own 40 years of experience, between 1/4 and 1/3 of the female activists in the pro-life movement are post-abortive women. They repent, they work through their grief, and they become activists in expiation of their sin.
A law which held these women responsible for homicide, would be (1) un-passable, (2) un-enforceable, and (3) even if enforced, would destroy the prolife movement.
Any law, to be meaningful, has to be enforceable; and no anti-abortion law will be enforced without dogged, relentless push-push-push on the local level. That "push" more often than not comes from conscience-driven people whose experience with abortion was up close and personal.