Posted on 07/09/2007 6:36:35 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
"Raleigh — During a candlelight vigil for an unborn baby that died last month when his mother was murdered, scores of people were expected to call Monday for a state law to make killing a pregnant woman a double murder.
"An unborn child should be recognized if the mother's killed," said Kevin Blaine, whose daughter, Jenna Nielsen, was stabbed to death June 14.
Nielsen, 22, of Fuquay-Varina, was killed as she refilled USA Today newspaper boxes. Her body was found behind a Lake Wheeler Road convenience store.
She was eight months pregnant with her third son. That boy, who was to be named Ethen, was due to be born Sunday.
Nielsen is the third pregnant woman killed in the Triangle in just over two years. Michelle Young was found beaten to death in her Wake County home in November. Janet Abaroa was found stabbed to death in her Durham home in April 2005.
North Carolina is one of 14 states that doesn't recognize the death of a fetus as a separate crime, although state law does enhance the felony charge against an assailant if a crime against a pregnant woman – including domestic violence – leads to a miscarriage or stillbirth."....
(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...
Maddeningly - despite this horrendous crime and others like it in NC recently - the NC Legislature did not find time to even debate the issue this session....."House Bill 263, which would have made the death of a fetus a separate crime, didn't make a deadline to be heard by a legislative committee this session, said state Rep. Debra Ross, D-Wake.
If all parties get together, a study could emerge for the next legislative session, Ross said."
Spread it far and wide: an unborn baby - is not a person in NC. Therefore it is open season on pregnant women here......as far as the Democrats in power here are concerned!
Didn’t President Bush sign legislation that made the killing of an unborn person in the course of a murder a separate offense?
I didn’t know that - but if he did - it wouldn’t affect state laws - would it? They come first? Unless the person being murdered is a federal agent of some kind.....?
Here is a link to the website where concerned NC citizens can "websign" a petition to the NC Legislature to correct this outrageous lack of justice for unborn children:
Petition for NC Law to protect the unborn from crimes against them
Can you do an NC Ping? Thanks.
only on federal property.
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