How do we definition and value Life? And how does it relate to abortion laws.

[Retroit]

To complicate matters, it is legal to kill a fetus if the mother wants, but illegal if the mother doesn't (for example if a pregnant woman is shot and the baby dies and the shooter is tried for murder). So life is apparently arbitrarily decided by the mother, not by science.

[fairlaker]

Not so much. If you run a stop sign and t-bone the car of a woman on her way to have an abortion, causing in that accident the loss of the fetus, you are still culpable for infanticide. That said, so-called infanticide laws are not expressions of any fetal rights, but rather of the property rights of the mother in her fetus. This is why actions of the mother herself or of any of her duly authorized agents are excluded from coverage under such laws.