[Aune]

Certainly people who suffer a miscarriage when trying to have children suffer deeply. It is clear then that they lost more than some human tissue.

Also if you beat a woman causing her to misscarry, then we look upon that quite a lot harsher than if no miscarriage occured.

In general we don't tend to value human life or rights when it is inconvenient to do so though.

[maratc]

> Also if you beat a woman causing her to miscarry

An interesting note: even in the Code of Hammurabi there's a provision for that, and that's from about 4,000 years ago.

[IncRnd]

Today I learned that there are actually six provisions in the Code of Hammurabi for that, covering different effects to the mother and (according that system) standing of the mother!

  209. If a man has struck a free woman with child, and has caused
       her to miscarry, he shall pay ten shekels for her miscarriage.
  210. If that woman die, his daughter shall be killed.
  211. If by a blow he has caused a plebian's daughter to have a
       miscarriage, he shall pay five shekels of silver.
  212. If that woman has died, he shall pay one-half mina of silver.
  213. If he struck a freeman's female slave and has caused her to
       have a miscarriage, he shall pay two shekels of silver.
  214. If that female slave has died, he shall pay one-third mina of
       silver.