Mess with a turtle egg and get a yr. in jail and a $50K fine, abort a child, get paid $750.00, I think the judges and the US congress should address this issue. And we wonder why there is NO respect for HUMAN life created in God's image. Humans should be protected under the guarantees of the 5th and 14th amendments to the US Constitution. OK, every in the pool and flap your fins and keep your offspring buried in the sand; we're turtles now. DEFINITIONS S (8) The term ‘‘fish or wildlife’’ means any member of the animal kingdom, including without limitation any mammal, fish, bird (including any migratory, nonmigratory, or endangered bird for which protection is also afforded by treaty or other international agreement), amphibian, reptile, mollusk, crustacean, arthropod or other invertebrate, and includes any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof, or the dead body or parts thereof.
But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for EVERY careless word they have spoken."--Jesus (Matt. 12:36) http://endangered.fws.gov/esa.html#Lnk11
http://endangered.fws.gov/esa.html
http://endangered.fws.gov/wildlife.html#Species
http://endangered.fws.gov/wildlife.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/785378/posts
http://endangered.fws.gov/
The Endangered Species Act of 1973
http://endangered.fws.gov/esaall.pdf
Page 4 Sec 3 (c)(8) don't crack those eggs, one might end the "life" of a bird, fish or turtle. I guess certain "mammals" (humans) do not apply.
http://profs.lp.findlaw.com/endanger/endanger_6.html