Mar 23
Protecting the Unborn
The Senate has passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act and have sent the bill to President Bush, who is expected to sign it into law.
The bill applies only to federal crimes, such as drug trade crimes on federal land. For those cases, the law splits violence against a pregnant woman into two different crimes: violence against the woman herself and violence against her unborn child.
Those who oppose the bill worry that it the legal ramifications of defining an unborn child with the same legal status as the mother will eventually affect abortion law.
I must be missing something here. Imagine that two women — one pregnant and the other infertile — are killed. Would you like to be the one to explain to the family of the infertile woman why her murder wasn’t as bad as the pregnant woman’s? Don’t get me wrong: I’m all for protecting the unborn since they obviously are powerless to protect themselves. But as I see it, once someone commits the first murder, it’s time to stop counting victims and instead punish appropriately. One murder victim is one too many.
April 17th, 2005 at 2:05 pm
Murder is murder the way that I see it is about time that society looks at the unborn as a life not a choice.
September 18th, 2006 at 9:16 am
let’s look at this way, two women both get killed, however one woman is carrying a baby in her arms who also dies in the cross fire. Two people were killed. not just one. and life is a gift and should be protected for everyone, not just the ones we choose to acknowledge.