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Information on the
Federal Unborn Victims Law:
National
Right To Life's Unborn Victims of Violence Page
Picture
of Traci Marciniak holding her son Zachariah, who was
killed in utero, at his funeral
Testimony
of Tracy Marciniak.
John
Ensign's Letter On UBVA
Answering
Arguments Against SB 299
Nevada LIFE Testimony
On SB 299:
Nevada
LIFE Testimony On SB 299, The NV Lacy and Connor's Law April 6,
2007.
Nevada
LIFE Supplemental Testimony On SB 299, The NV Lacy and
Connor's Law April 6, 2007.
Nevada LIFE Press
Releases:
One
Victim or Two?
Nevada's Laci and Connor's Law Gets
Hearing Friday,
April 4, 2007.
Nevada
LIFE Press Release on Laci and Connor's Law Feb. 25, 2004
Nevada
LIFE Press Release on Laci and Connor's Law March 18, 2004
Nevada
Unborn Victims Bill Hearing April 6, 2007
SB 299:
Text
of SB 299.
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SB 299
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One
Victim or Two?
Nevada's
Laci and Connor's Law Gets Hearing Friday in Senate
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 4, 2007
When
an unborn child is killed or injured as a result of an
attack on his or her mother, there is clearly a second
victim. The
unborn child is someone, not merely “something.”
The law should treat harm to the unborn as a
separate crime and the unborn as a second victim
The
federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act
states that there are two victims during attacks on
pregnant women and that punishment should be the same
for injury or death to the child as if it happened to
the mother.
But the federal law only applies to crimes
committed on federal property.
Nevada
SB 299 attempts to bring Nevada law more in conformity
with federal law.
It says that,
“a pregnant woman and an unborn child she is carrying
in the womb constitute separate and distinct victims for
purposes of prosecuting any criminal offense set forth
in the Nevada Revised Statutes that involves the use of
violence.”
A clear exception is made for abortion.
Nevada
law, while making injury to an unborn child a crime,
differs from federal law and is not nearly as strong.
SB 299 would improve Nevada law (which
punishes assailants who kill unborn children
during an attack on pregnant women-1-10 years in prison
and fines of no more than $10,000) by making it clear
that that there are two victims and offenses and that
penalties for crimes against violence not only apply to
death or injury to the mother, but they also apply to
injury or death to the unborn child.
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Planned
Parenthood Mar Monte opposes
this bill in part because it
“creates a precedent for eroding a woman's right to
make decisions about her own fertility.”
But
California'
s unborn victim law has been in effect
since 1970 and
does not affect the availability of legal abortion-nor
do unborn victims laws in other states.
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte also says the
“bill's dangerous reality would elevate the legal
status of the fetus to that of an adult human being.”
While expectant moms and dads and other family
members and medical professionals are treating the
unborn like family members by reading to them, showing
off ultrasounds, naming them and making preparations in
their homes for their unborn children, Planned
Parenthood is standing in the way of greater protections
for women and children for ideological and political
purposes.
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