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It has a specific exception for abortion but was largely a ploy to elevate fetuses legal status to a party capable of being wronged under federal law and so lay the groundwork for future challenges to abortion. The pretense was that violent crimes against pregnant women should get punished more harshly because there’s two victims.
Turns out they didn’t need it, they could just pack the courts and get what they wanted without all the trouble.