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Florida toughens law on hurting fetus, after abortion pill trick
Reuters ^ | June 20, 2014 | Letitia Stein

Posted on 06/22/2014 1:10:56 PM PDT by boatbums

Florida Governor Rick Scott on Friday signed into law harsher penalties for crimes in which a fetus is harmed or killed, no matter how early in the pregnancy.

The legislation drew passionate support this spring from a Florida woman whose boyfriend tricked her into taking pills known to induce abortion during the initial weeks of a pregnancy.

The new law allows offenders to be charged with a separate crime for causing harm to a fetus at any stage of development, even if the perpetrator did not know the woman was pregnant.

Prior Florida law applied only in limited circumstances and when the fetus was far enough along to survive outside the womb.

"There is no timeline anymore for justice for an unborn child of a pregnant woman," said the bill's Republican sponsor, state Representative Larry Ahern.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; fetalrights; florida
Seeing as abortion rights proponents have slowly progressed their agenda to the point that now in America abortion is legal for any reason and at any time in the pregnancy, it's about time that pro-life forces take back, step-by-step, that slide towards the abortion-on-demand goals of anti-life crowd.
1 posted on 06/22/2014 1:10:56 PM PDT by boatbums
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To: Morgana

ping


2 posted on 06/22/2014 1:11:13 PM PDT by boatbums (Proud member of the Free Republic Bible Thumpers Brigade.)
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To: boatbums

Test cases like this will expose the double mindedness of modern leftists and open opportunities, but to actually get very far needs the power of the Lord to be called into the situation.

God lets crying evils happen sometimes because He wants us to be crying out to Him when we’ve been just sitting there mum before the throne.


3 posted on 06/22/2014 1:17:36 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: boatbums

I hope the situation was analyzed well enough, though, to see if existing law really did cover this situation. It looks like a poisoning with intent to kill to me. That’s pretty dire in itself. It’s a leftist thing to keep multiplying laws.


4 posted on 06/22/2014 1:21:54 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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