Bill would increase penalties for assault against pregnant women

krtv.com ^ | Jan 25, 2015 | Sanjay Talwani

[Morgana]

Here is the full text of the bill:

A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT PROVIDING FOR AN ENHANCED SENTENCE FOR A PERSON CONVICTED OF A FORCIBLE FELONY AGAINST A PREGNANT WOMAN."

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:

NEW SECTION. Section 1. Additional sentence for forcible felony against pregnant woman. (1) An offender who is convicted of committing a forcible felony, as defined in 45-2-101, against a pregnant woman and who, at the time of the offense, knew or should have known that the woman was pregnant shall, in addition to the punishment provided for commission of the offense, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment in a state prison of not less than 2 years or more than 20 years, except as provided in 46-18-222. (2) An additional sentence imposed pursuant to this section must be imposed pursuant to the requirements of 46-1-401 and must run consecutively to the sentence imposed for the offense, except as provided in 46-18-222.

NEW SECTION. Section 2. Codification instruction. [Section 1] is intended to be codified as an integral part of Title 46, chapter 18, part 2, and the provisions of Title 46, chapter 18, part 2, apply to [section 1]. - END -

[Veggie Todd]

I’m betting abortion is exempt, right?

[knarf]

Our nation is invaded ... not BEING invaded ... it's a done deal ... and Congress is stiffening an already relatively stiff law

Impeach the brotherhood from our politics ... remove them ... try, convict and imprison them ... and get on about the America YOU SAY you love and YOU SAY you'll protect and YOU SAY is under attack ...

ACT LIKE IT !!!

Sorry ladies ... but some legislation is just not that important and other should take a higher priority

[rey]

Some animals are more equal.

[Secret Agent Man]

I really am not for extra penalites for special groups of people. All that seems to be done is special classes of people get more rights than others, and somehow it’s worse to hurt certain classes of people more than others.

This is not equal protection and equal justice.

Until the courts are consistent - and these laws are inconsistent concerning unborn babies - we can’t have certain times where the law considers an unborn baby a person and other times it isn’t. This is bipolar law, it’s schizophrenic. It needs to be consistent.

[babygene]

I’m OK with this...

If you assault a pregnant woman, you are, in reality, assaulting two or more people.

There is a lot of data out there that when a pregnant suffers trauma, it has a negative effect on the baby.

[Vendome]

What?

If abortion is legal, then why attach a penalty because someone loses some goo or cells outta their belly?

/S

[gfbtbb]

So whatever happened to the equal protection clause or the 14th amendment? Or are we now a nation of privileged special people?

[Iron Munro]

Some animals are more equal.

It won't be long before everyone has a special carve-out except for white, heterosexual, Christian males.