They want the woman who's pregnant to carry to term the baby--not a child, just a physical thing.
Traditionally in Christianity, a human being is composed of body, mind and spirit. There is no human being in just the physical, living body-tissue: except according to some right wing groups of various religions.
While some groups in the Southern states oppose the pregnant woman's right to abort the fetus, be it noted no such restriction is being placed on the medical profession acting on behalf of the state and society, should it be determined the pregnancy would give birth to a "seriously deformed" or "inhuman" baby etc.
No provision or promise is being offered to the pregnant female that an unwanted pregnancy would be accepted in her community, its needs being met from state funding. Nor is the Catholic Church making promise to educate a child from an unwanted pregnancy. The only responsibility being incurred by law is that of the mother--to carry the fetus to term.
Note that for millennia, pregnant women and mothers of babies did have the right to abort or terminate the human growth at that primordial stage of its existence.
I sense there's a hidden injustice in making the woman a scapegoat for an act that society fails to accept
its own participation in, viz., an unwanted birth.
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