Kerry, Democrats Condemned for Votes Against Unborn Victims Act

Talon News ^ | March 29, 2004 | Jeff Gannon

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WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Pro-life groups criticized Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) for his vote last week against the Unborn Victims of Violence Act.

The bill, also known as "Laci and Conner's Law," recognizes the unborn child as a second victim when he or she is killed or injured during the commission of a violent federal crime. The bill passed the U.S. Senate 61-38 and now goes on to President Bush for his signature.

National Right to Life Coalition Legislative Director Douglas Johnson said in a press release, "Apparently, John Kerry believes that if a criminal commits a federal crime that injures a pregnant woman and kills her unborn son or daughter, prosecutors should tell the grieving mother that she did not really lose a baby."

The Senate defeated, 50-49, a substitute proposal offered by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) that would have codified the doctrine that when a woman and her unborn child are injured or killed during a federal crime, that crime has only a single victim. Kerry voted for the Feinstein single-victim substitute.

Some other senators -- including Tom Daschle (D-SD) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) -- first voted for the Feinstein single-victim substitute, but after that amendment narrowly failed, turned around and voted to pass the Unborn Victims of Violence Act.

Cathy Cleaver Ruse, Esq., spokesperson for the U.S. Bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities said, "We are grateful to the Senate for ignoring the offensive claims of the abortion lobby and its allies in Congress. Abortion activists may recoil from the acknowledgment of a child's existence before birth, but their efforts to erase the child as a second victim in a violent crime are an insult to all women and families who have lost a loved one to violence."

She added, "Here, as elsewhere, abortion activists are working against the real interests of women. Women deserve better than this. No woman should ever be told she lost nothing when she loses her child to a brutal attacker."

Randy Thomasson, executive director of Campaign for California Families sharply criticized Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein for their "callous disregard for innocent babies by voting against this pro-child legislation."

Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins said in a press release, "When President Bush signs the Unborn Victims of Violence Act into law, our nation will be one giant step closer to rebuilding a culture of life, where every child -- born and unborn -- is given the protections they so clearly deserve."

In a statement issued after bill's passage, President Bush said, "Pregnant women who have been harmed by violence, and their families, know that there are two victims -- the mother and the unborn child -- and both victims should be protected by Federal law. I look forward to signing this important legislation into law."

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Kerry - Pro-Abortion to the Core.

[John Thornton]

I have to admit I am shocked at this. Even Specter and Daschole voted for the final legislation. I hope Bush hangs him with this vote.

[Blood of Tyrants]

There is absolutely no doubt that an unborn baby is 1) living and 2) human. Only by twisting the legal meaning of "person" can the left keep abortion legal. ANYTHING that moves the definition to cover an unborn child will be opposed to the end.

Here in Tennessee, the Rats control both houses of the legislature and whenever a plank of the Rat party is threatened (i.e. a bill that would make violence agains an unborn baby a crime, or a bill that would make "civil unions" among sexual perverts illegal) they will do one of two things. They will unconstitutionally and unilaterally have the chairman of the committe declare the bill dead and report it as so or pull moderate to conservative DemocRats off teh committe and make a last munute substitution with someone who will help them kill it because they KNOW that the bill would pass if presented to the full House and Senate.

[Guillermo]

Science has proven, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that one is 100% human from the moment of conception.

And the left continues to accuse the right of being "anti-science"...

[GailA]

Take note those who say they will sit home this election to punish the GOP. 2-4 supreme court justices appointed by hanoi john will undo this along with the PBA in a heart beat...plus realy mess up our 2nd amendment rights.