March 29, 2004
TRANSPARENT MASQUERADE, NO?
A Misleading Fetal Violence Law (NY Times, 3/29/04)
The law that Congress passed last week making it a federal offense to harm a fetus, distinct from the crime of attacking the pregnant woman, is an attack on abortion rights masquerading as law enforcement.
There should be a keyboard function that stops you from typing when you've written something as silly as the thought that a law to protect fetuses is misleading because it could prevent them from being aborted. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 29, 2004 9:31 AM
"These promises should be remembered when the law is invoked, as it inevitably will be, in efforts to scale back or end the right to abortion."
-- 'scale back'? if you want to make your position look positively unappealing, remember to compare it to a production line activity. although, if the shoe fits...
Posted by: a at March 29, 2004 9:52 AM"If the Senate was intent on simply increasing the penalties for such crimes, it could have passed an amendment introduced by Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, that would have allowed suspects to be charged with a separate offense of harming a fetus without granting rights to the fetus itself. Senator Feinstein's amendment was voted down 50 to 49."
Really? And what's Ms. Pelosi's view of again?