If I shoot a woman who is 2 months pregnant and she survives but I kill the fetus, I would be charged with murder in the majority of states. I consider a two month old fetus to be human and feel that the law would be justified in charging me with murder. In this case the law considers the fetus human as murder only applies to a human being. However the courts do not consider the fetus to be human when an abortion is performed. The child dies during an abortion; it's not human. I shoot the mother and kill the child it is human. You can't have it both ways; it's a double standard.
I think the law is misnamed (Fetal Homicide), but I agree with it. A women should be able to choose to say, have her arm cut off. It's her arm, her choice. If a man comes along and wants to cut off her arm against her will, then that's a crime.
Since the lawmakers having chosen to call it 'homicide' then I suppose abortion could be seen as the legal equivalent 'justifiable homicide'?