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When The Unborn Doesn't Go Quietly To His ExecutionMichael Reagan Show2-28-98 Bob Edwards When the Unborn Doesn't Go Quietly to His ExecutionIt was a relatively calm day in my hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. I and two other nurses were trying to have a conversation amid the customary sounds of ventilators and heart monitors. I was in mid-sentence when the shrill ring of the red emergency phone halted everything. "Come fast," the voice said urgently, "We need a neonatal nurse here STAT!" (that's immediately). Fear gripped my heart as I ran into the delivery room, but instantly I knew the...

Indianapolis - Police announced the arrests Friday of two men in connection with an April bank robbery and shooting. The high-profile case triggered a massive manhunt after a pregnant teller was shot at the Huntington Bank on 21st and Post Road. The woman survived, but her unborn twin girls did not...

PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) -- Concerned about a possible expansion of the death penalty, Catholic leaders in Oregon have withdrawn their support for an unborn victims of violence bill in the state Legislature. In February, the Oregon Catholic Conference voiced conditional backing for the legislation, which would create separate criminal charges when an unborn child is killed or injured in crimes carried out against the mother. The support was contingent on an amendment which would ensure that the measure would not make the death penalty a more frequent sentencing option. But the conference withdrew its support after a House panel May...

Police Investigate Whether Gunshot Was Self-Inflicted POSTED: 5:56 pm CST February 8, 2005 UPDATED: 6:34 pm CST February 8, 2005 DES MOINES, Iowa -- Des Moines police are investigating who fired a gunshot Sunday that killed a woman's fetus. Video Watch KCCI's Report A caller requested police and medics come to a home on Des Moines' northeast side Sunday afternoon, according to police. "When officers arrived, Amanda Kuebler, she's 20-years old, seven-months pregnant, had been shot, and she was taken to Methodist Hospital," said Sgt. Todd Dykstra, a Des Moines police spokesman. Kuebler survived, but her unborn baby did not....

President Bush Endorses Pro-Life Bills on Teen Abortions, Fetal Pain Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A White House spokesman has indicated that President Bush will back two pro-life pieces of legislation that will be at the forefront of efforts by pro-life groups and lawmakers to further reduce the number of abortions. The first bill, the Child Custody Protection Act, has received House approval before but never had a vote in the Senate. Under the measure, states would be required to honor the parental involvement statues of other states by preventing anyone other than a teenager's parents or legal guardian from taking...

JUST THREE DAYS after a jury gave Scott Peterson the death penalty for killing his wife and their unborn child, authorities in Missouri issued an Amber Alert for a baby that had been cut from its mother's womb eight months into her pregnancy. The unusual confluence of these events provides a sign that Americans are taking the rights of unborn children more seriously. Peterson was convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of his pregnant wife, Laci. He was convicted of second-degree murder in the killing of Conner, their unborn child. Laci was eight months pregnant. In the Missouri case,...

The jury's sentence of death for Scott Peterson may have grabbed the most media attention but another issue related to the celebrated case may have a lasting legal effect: abortion. The case "put the unborn child on the map for everyone to see," Randy Thomasson of the Campaign for California Families told USA Today. He was right. The killing of Connor Peterson was a key factor in the jury's decision to impose the death penalty on his killer, and the state law that allowed an unborn child to be deemed a murder victim created a serious legal problem for the...

A woman whose fetus died from a car accident lashed out yesterday against the law that says her unborn son was not a human. "I don't want to see the person that hit me get away with it," said Aimee Wilson, 25, of Langley. "He killed my son." Wilson, eight months pregnant, was driving her Honda Civic on Alderbridge Way in Richmond about 11 p.m. on Nov. 28 when she was in a collision at No. 4 Road with another Civic, driven by a 21-year-old Burnaby man. Staff at Vancouver General Hospital couldn't find her fetus' heartbeat. "I remember asking...

Louisville, KY (LifeNews.com) -- A Kentucky man is being charged under a new law after beating his pregnant wife so severely that her unborn child died as a result. Eric Adam Trask was arrested Tuesday in the assault of his wife Samantha E. Trask and the death of her 5 month-old unborn baby. He was also charged with violating a protective order prohibiting him from having contact with her. The Unborn Victims of Violence Act protects pregnant women and allows prosecutors to charge criminals who kill or injure an unborn child in an attack on a pregnant woman with two...

Louisville, KY (LifeNews.com) -- A Kentucky man is being charged under a new law after beating his pregnant wife so severely that her unborn child died as a result. Eric Adam Trask was arrested Tuesday in the assault of his wife Samantha E. Trask and the death of her 5 month-old unborn baby. He was also charged with violating a protective order prohibiting him from having contact with her. The Unborn Victims of Violence Act protects pregnant women and allows prosecutors to charge criminals who kill or injure an unborn child in an attack on a pregnant woman with two...

Conner Peterson is dead, but he is still playing a critical role in this year's presidential election. Republicans are using him to show how deeply they care about the unborn. Democrats are ignoring him, because they do not want a debate over whether or not he had rights. Protesters at this week's Democratic Convention in Boston are raising his name to showcase what they say are some of the main differences between the two candidates for the White House. For many voters abortion is the most important political issue. Strangely, Conner was not an aborted baby. He was a much-wanted...

LUFKIN -- A Lufkin High School student has been charged with murder after police say he killed his unborn twin sons by beating his pregnant girlfriend. Gerardo Flores, 18, was arrested Friday afternoon by Lufkin police after his 16-year-old girlfriend delivered twin boys stillborn at home and sought medical attention at an East Texas hospital, an arrest affidavit states. The teen was five months pregnant. It could be one of the first cases prosecuted under a new Texas law that changes the definition of human life for a murder charge, The Lufkin Daily News reported today. Texas law now defines...

Photo of Tracy Marciniak of Wisconsin holding her dead son, Zachariah, at his funeral. Zachariah was killed by his father when he punched Tracy in the stomach during her ninth month of pregnancy. He was convicted for injuring Tracy but not for killing Zachariah.(Photo courtesy of National Right to Life) OPINION -- In a statement released after last week’s passage of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act by the U.S. Senate, National Organization for Women President Kim Gandy warned, "Giving a fetus at any stage of development [emphasis hers] the same legal rights as the pregnant woman will undermine...

 Home > News & Policies   For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryApril 1, 2004 President's Remarksview listen President Bush Signs Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004 Remarks by the President at Signing of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004The East Room 2:57 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you for coming. Thank you all. Please be seated. Thanks for the warm welcome. (Laughter.) Welcome to the people's house, the White House. I'm pleased that you all could be here for the first bill signing ceremony of the year 2004. The Unborn Victims of Violence Act provides...

NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE CONDEMNS KERRY FOR HIS VOTE AGAINST UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT WASHINGTON (March 26, 2004) -- The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) assailed Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) for his vote against the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 1997), which passed the U.S. Senate 61-38 on Thursday, March 25. The bill, also known as "Laci and Conner's Law," recognizes the unborn child as a second victim when he or she is killed or injured during the commission of a violent federal crime. "Apparently, John Kerry believes that if a criminal commits a federal crime that...

Senate Passes Unborn Victims Bill WASHINGTON, March 25, 2004  (Photo: AP) "This bill recognizes that there are two victims. It's as simple as that."Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio (AP) The Senate voted Thursday to make it a separate crime to harm a fetus during commission of a violent federal crime, a victory for those seeking to expand the legal rights of the unborn. The 61-38 vote on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act sends the legislation, after a five-year battle in Congress, to President Bush for his signature. The White House said in a statement that it "strongly supports protection for unborn...

PRO-LIFE CHALLENGE Federal Legislation Key Facts on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (S. 1019, H.R. 1997)Published by the National Right to Life CommitteeUpdated January 5, 2004For more information on unborn victims of violence (or "fetal homicide" laws), visit the NRLC website at http://www.nrlc.org/Unborn_victims/index.html.* The Unborn Victims of Violence Act (also known as "Laci and Conner's Law") is a proposed federal law currently under consideration in Congress. This bill, which is supported by President Bush, is sponsored in the Senate by Senator Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) (S. 1019), and in the House of Representatives by Congresswoman Melissa Hart (R-Pa.) (H.R. 1997)....

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As the House last week passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (HR 1997), 254-to-163, some pro-life activists, while continuing to seek reversal of Roe v. Wade, were pointing to the merits of passing interim legislation that chips at the edges of abortion on demand. A Heritage Foundation study, "Analyzing the Effects of State Legislation on the Incidence of Abortion During the 1990s," found that small legislative successes at the state level have reduced abortions. The Unborn Victims of Violence Act would make injuring or killing an unborn child, in a federal jurisdiction, a crime separate from injuring or killing...

Critics say law would be used to undermine abortion rights; Senate passage in doubt WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives passed a bill 254-163 on Thursday that would make it a separate crime to kill or harm a fetus during an attack on a pregnant woman. Opponents of the bill, such as Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York -- the senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on the Constitution -- say its definition of an unborn child as "a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb" could be used...