Should murderers be charged with two counts of murder if they murder a pregnant woman?

[octothorpe]

13. The point of wanting to be able to convict someone of murder for something like this?

I just put myself in the situation. Imagine you or your significant other is pregnant and the whole idea of having a baby is basically what you're living for now. Then eight months in someone comes and purposely causes harm to the baby (which I guess is key here too), maybe it doesn't end with the murder of the mother, but just some forceful blows to the stomach that terminates pregnancy. To me, that would be devastating like losing an infant. I know I personally would want more than a typical assault charge or whatever. I know others may feel different, but that's how I'd feel. It gets a bit more murky for me once we get into earlier stages in the pregnancy.

Of course that's my view in an ideal world where it wouldn't be used by anti-abortion zealots to charge women with murder. I find that rather frustrating.

And there may some hypocritical thought processes in there on my part.