Posted on 02/13/2003 4:05:03 PM PST by nickcarraway
Edited on 05/07/2004 6:46:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A bill to create a crime of ''fetal homicide'' passed the Senate yesterday by a vote of 34-3 and heads to the House, where three similar bills have failed in past years.
''The only holdup in the House is the chairman in Judiciary,'' said Sen. Richard Roeding, R-Lakeside Park, sponsor of Senate Bill 41, which allows authorities to prosecute someone who causes a stillbirth or miscarriage during an attack on a pregnant woman.
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