March 25, 2004
COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM JUST KEEPS RACKING UP WINS:
Crimes against fetuses bill nears Senate passage (JIM ABRAMS, March 25, 2004, Associated Press)
Congress stood ready Thursday to send President Bush legislation making it a separate offense to harm a fetus during a violent federal crime, an issue that has become tangled with the battle over abortion.The Senate cleared the way for passing the Unborn Victims of Violence Act by defeating an amendment, backed by abortion rights lawmakers, that would have increased penalties but maintained that an attack on a pregnant victim was a single-victim crime.
The House approved the legislation last month.
The vote is being closely watched by anti-abortion and other conservative groups, who have made passage of the measure one of their top goals this year. Abortion rights groups say the bill is an effort to undermine a woman's right to end her pregnancy.
Perhaps this presidency is so radical that folks just can't process what's happening around them. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 25, 2004 7:03 PM
Forcing the contradictions.
Posted by: David Cohen at March 25, 2004 7:15 PMRead this morning that Mr. Kerry showed up to vote for the Feinstein Amendment to the bill, then vote against the final bill.
Posted by: MC at March 26, 2004 9:24 AMThere is another bill In Virginia which is even shrewder from the perspective of abortion opponents: a bill that would require that fetuses be administered pain medication during an abortion. Let the Culture of Death and Sentimentaility stew in that one!
Posted by: Paul Cella at March 26, 2004 9:54 AM