If you drink too much and lose the baby, is that an abortion?

If you eat too much of a foreign dinner with exotic spices and lose the baby, is that an abortion?

If you do too many squats when pregnant and lose the baby, is that an abortion?

Tearing pieces of a baby out of the womb is in a different class than a forced miscarriage.

What matters is intent. Did you intentionally lose the child?

Then that's murder. No different than if you kill people your rented a house out to because they take nine months to evict. If you can't wait the nine months then you shouldn't have rented out your property. It doesn't matter how you killed them, with a coat hanger to the throat or by hiring a hitman, your actions led to the death of a living thing.

Personally, I believe an abortion is anything that intentionally terminates a pregnancy.

Why I have to draw distinctions is because of the difficulty in legally classifying the act. Intent is hard to prove. If a woman just exercises too much when pregnant, it's hard to prove she knew it would kill the baby. Accidents DO happen, so throwing an innocent woman who was stupid and did squats during pregnancy in jail is wrong. How can you tell she didn't have intent? Ultimately, it's better that a criminal go free than an innocent rot in prison, and that's a hard pill to swallow outside the pages of a law book.

If they take a drug that says "will terminate pregnancy", however, then that proves intent, but that doesn't mean the drug should be taken off the market. If it helps in some other way, it shouldn't be regulated because of what it CAN do.

Mifepristone & Misoprostol can do more than abort babies, it just so happens that's what they're "best" at. They might have properties that cure IBMS for all we know, but we might never find that out if they are over-regulated, which would be a shame for everyone with IBMS.

If someone intentionally uses Mifepristone and Misoprostol for an abortion, then sure, lock 'em up.