My guess is that in both cases, it's so likely that happened was really an accident that there's no point in investigating it.

Without investigating it you have no way to tell if there are "extraordinary reasons". In traffic incidents where people die, the police don't just pat us on our heads and say "you must not have meant it" and send us on our way.

How dangerous is alcohol and tobacco to developing fetus?

Very. Try looking up "fetal alcohol syndrome".

Do I want women who have abortions to face life in prison? No. I believe intent matters, and I give people the benefit of the doubt.

I didn't say "life", I said "10 years". That's what we give to people who get other people killed without meaning it, where it wasn't a pure accident.

I sincerely doubt that many women who have abortions really believe they are killing people.

So how about pro-life women who have abortions? Members of whatever church you belong to? They have abortions too, and they apparently believe what you do. Are we going to send them to prison for life?

Our judicial system is supposed to be stacked heavily in favor of preventing the conviction or harassment of innocent people.

I thought the unborn were innocent *people*?

Sounds to me like you're willing to *say* you consider the unborn to be *people*, but faced with what that would *really* mean, you don't. It's a retorical stance, not reality.