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Unborn victims: Some still refuse to protect them
The Union Leader. ^ | March 28, 2004

Posted on 03/28/2004 2:24:21 AM PST by sopwith

MANKIND has long attached punishment to the killing of an unborn child. Not so the federal government, until now.

On Thursday the U.S. Senate finally passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which makes it a federal crime to injure or kill a fetus while committing a violent federal crime against a pregnant woman.

The concept is not a new one. Exodus 21: 22 reads: “If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.”

Twenty-nine states have laws that make it a crime to kill an unborn baby. New Hampshire is not one of them. Even Massachusetts provides punishment for killing unborn children in some circumstances. Granite State legislators must fix this.

Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., proposed a substitute bill that would have increased penalties for attacking a pregnant woman, but would not have recognized an unborn child as a victim. John Kerry stopped his campaigning for the White House to return to the Senate and vote for Feinstein’s bill — and against the bill that would make killing a pregnant woman a two-victim crime.

As Sharon Rocha, mother of the murdered Laci Peterson, wrote in a letter to Sen. Kerry: “And what about mothers who survive criminal attacks but lose their babies? I don’t understand how any senator can vote to force prosecutors to tell such a grieving mother that she didn’t really lose a baby — when she knows to the depths of her soul that she did.”

Most Americans (more than 80 percent in some polls) agree that it should be a crime to harm or kill an unborn child. The residents of most states are governed by state laws that do so. We are taken aback that 38 senators, including Sen. Kerry, voted not to give legal status to unborn victims of violence.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: 2004; connerslaw; fetalrights; kerry; prolife

1 posted on 03/28/2004 2:24:21 AM PST by sopwith
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mule face hot footed it to DC for 3 votes this year. 1 for gun control, 1 for more taxes, and this 1 against the unborn. True socialist liberal.
2 posted on 03/28/2004 3:56:57 AM PST by GailA (Kerry I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, but I'll declare a moratorium on the death penalty)
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