Fetus Rights

Hey guys!
I wanted to take you back to the very beginning of the semester when we first talked about whether or not a fetus should have rights. I logged onto msn today and this caught my eye.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44845743/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/cops-mom-fetus-killed-woman-who-wanted-own-child/

This woman killed a pregnant lady and used an exacto knife to cut out her fetus because she " wanted her own child." According to the article the woman, Annette Morales-Rodriguez, said that her boyfriend wanted to have a son but she couldn't get pregnant. She falsified her pregnancy to friends and neighbors and then followed Maritza Ramirez-Cruz, offered her a ride, took her to a house where she beat her with a bat, and then cut out the fetus with an exacto knife, going as far as rubbing some of Ramirez-Cruz's blood on her thighs to make it look like she had given birth. She is being charged on two separate accounts of homicide, one for the mother and one for the unborn fetus. My question to you is should she be prosecuted for killing an unborn child and if she can be charged for killing a child, does that mean that a child has rights, leading to the bigger question of what is the difference between this and abortion? Will it be possible for a mother to be prosecuted for an abortion one day, and if so does that take away from the mothers right to privacy and to have control of her own body?

I'm also a bit curious as to what part the boyfriend of Morales- Rodriguez played in this? Was there some sort of physical or emotional abuse tat may have led Morales- Rodriguez to commit such a horrendous act? Or was she just emotionally unstable herself?