Hart defends legislation aimed to protect fetuses

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | Monday, January 5, 2004

[Willie Green]

Opponents say the bill throws America onto a slippery slope headed toward outlawing abortion. Backers such as U.S. Rep. Melissa Hart say it's a matter of protecting pregnant women and their unborn children.

The Bradford Woods, Allegheny County, Republican introduced legislation last spring that would make it a crime to kill a fetus. It would be the first federal law to endow a fetus with legal rights separate from the expectant mother.

[Land of the Free 04]

"It's an issue of a violent crime committed against a woman who is also pregnant, and our argument, and one that I'm sure is shared by a vast majority of the American public, is it's a crime against the child as well," Hart said. [...] Groups like NARAL argue that granting separate legal rights to fetuses might make it more difficult for women to get abortions.

I'll never understand abortion-worship like NARAL's.

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