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Posted on 02/13/2006 12:12:22 PM PST by Lesforlife
Colorado Cmte Kills Bill to Protect Pregnant Women From Violence
by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor February 9, 2006
Denver, CO (LifeNews.com) -- On a party line vote Thursday, Democratic members of a Colorado legislative panel killed legislation that would have protected pregnant women and their babies before birth by allowing criminals who assault them and kill or injure their child to be prosecuted for two crimes.
The House Judiciary Committee vote upset families members of those who have been victims of such violence.
Colorado Springs resident Erin-Lea Hanson told the Coloradoan newspaper that her unborn grandson "had as much a right to life as she did" when her pregnant daughter Amanda Lynn was murdered.
"His life was intentionally taken," she said.
"Another woman's going to die, and that woman's going to be pregnant, and her killer's not going to be charged with two counts of first degree murder," she added.
The committee voted against the bill after Warren Hearn, one of the few late-term abortion practitioners in the country, testified against it. He claimed he would have to shut down his abortion business because he would be prosecuted for performing abortions.
However, Rep. David Schultheis, the bill's sponsored, pointed out to the committee that the bill does not have anything to do with abortion and he noted that federal law and similar laws in dozens of other states have never prosecuted abortion practitioners.
"The real issue here is the homicide issue,” Schultheis said. “The abortion issue is not an issue in the bill.”
He said the committee vote against protecting Colorado women and their children disturbed him.
“This committee is so ideologue-oriented that they were not about to even acknowledge the personhood of the fetus,” Schultheis said, according to the newspaper report. “You tell that mother there with the photo that that wasn't a child.”
Kate Horle, vice president for public affairs at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, also testified against the pro-woman bill.
But Hanson said she would be back at the state legislature next year to press for passage of the measure.
In October 2003, Colorado prosecutors were upset that they could not charge a man in the death of an unborn child because the state has no law that allows prosecutors to hold him responsible.
Daniel Self, 46, was charged with killing a pregnant woman but couldn't be charged in the death of her unborn son. At a hearing, District Judge Gil Martinez dismissed a charge of child abuse resulting in death.
Leah Gee, Self's girlfriend, died two days after she was shot and her son was delivered by doctors via Caesarian section. He died two weeks later form complications.
At a preliminary hearing, specialists testified that Gee's head wound directly caused her baby's death. The boy suffered brain injuries as a result of Gee having a low level of oxygen for a long period of time.
Under state law on homicides, a person is defined as someone who is born and is alive at the time the homicide occurs. Schultheis' bill would change that to include babies before birth.
"Jeremiah was not born at the time of the homicidal act," Martinez said.
TAKE ACTION: Contact the members of the committee and express your opinion about their vote. For more info seehttp://www.leg.state.co.us.
Anyone know how to get ahold of Laci Peterson's mom to show
her how Colorado treats women and children?
Boulder's vicious late term baby killer, Warren Hern, didn't
want his business interfered with and the Dems happily obliged!
From the state that started the abortion holocaust.
Pregnant tourist alert!!
I hope Coloradans now have a good reason to vote the idiot Dems out of the state legislature.
Is the double-conviction allowed in any other state?
Nothing, absolutely nothing, can be allowed to stand in the way of the unlimited abortion license, in the eyes of these liberals.
I can remember when I was a child, that the most horrible crime anyone could imagine was to kill a pregnant woman. Now if it happens, all the abortion lovers jump up and start worrying that it might have a negative effect on their right to have an abortion.
How things change.
The real issue is men who figure out they won't pay child support if the mother to be and baby are both dead. Should be double homicide, absolutely.
There was a recent murder case in Williamson county TX. where a man was accused of murdering a pregnant woman. He got life in prison for 1 murder. Does anyone know if this law has been passed in TX.
Late term abortion is homicide, The Coloradans know it and they just voted to protect it.
I do believe Scott Peterson was convicted of murdering his unborn son. I could be wrong.
Oh my G-D. People not ashamed to stand up against the protection of the unborn baby whose mother is murdered?
Not all Coloradans. Unfortunately, like most metro areas, the city of Denver (not surrounding suburbs) is very blue. I don;t know if we'll be able to change the stranglehold in the state legistlature, but I sure hope we rectify the Salazar mistake when he is up for re-election.
Democrat judiciary committee members:
Betty Boyd, Morgan Carroll, Terrance Carroll, Cheri Jahn, Joel Judd,
Anne Mc Gihon.
I've always wondered about how the law would treat someone who killed a pregnant woman on the way to an abortion clinic. Is it two murders, or one? What if she was about to turn around and call it off?
"If an unborn baby dies, you shall give life for life." Exodus 21:23
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This is very odd, that Self couldn't be charged with the baby's murder, because the baby lived two weeks after he was born. Self's deliberate actions caused the death of a born person, even though inflicted before birth. In most states he could be charged, even without the fetal homicide provision.
Mrs VS
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