Does killing a cat carry more legal consequences than killing a pre-born baby?

Sometime back, there was a letter written to the local newspaper here in southwest New Hampshire decrying animal cruelty and the lack of serious sentencing for the perpetrators.

I agree that animal cruelty should be taken seriously and punished accordingly.  No question about it.

Some lunatic apparently killed two cats. 

The letter writer reports the idot was charged with two Class B felonies, reduced to two Class A misdemeanors.  He was subsequently sentenced to two one-year terms in the Cheshire County jail, all but 180 days of that sentence were suspended.

I have a question: when a little baby girl or boy – developing in their mother’s womb – is killed by some heinous procedure during the course of an abortion, what should the penalty be? 

A Class B felony?  A Class A misdemeanor?  With all but 180 days suspended?   

Should killing a cat carry more weight and punishment than killing that little baby girl or boy in their mother’s womb? 

Just curious.

And by the way, isn’t that the real “war on women”?

E. DeLalla