Kate Michelman, when she heard that the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (a law that would allow separate criminal penalties for killing an unborn baby during an assault or murder) was redubbed Laci and Conner’s Law (after the murder of Laci Peterson and unborn son Connor)
“It’s so crass, so offensive. It’s part of a larger strategy to establish the embryo would separate distinct rights equal to if not greater than the woman.”
Debra Rosenberg “the War over Fetal Rights” Newsweek, June 9, 2003, 44
From Laci Connor’s mother:
“Congress would be saying that Conner and other innocent unborn victims like him are not really victims — indeed, that they never really existed at all. But our grandson did live. He had a name, he was loved, and his life was violently taken from him before he ever saw the sun…..
The Unborn Victims of Violence Act explicitly says that it does not apply to abortion, or to any acts of the mother herself. Having said that, I have no difficulty understanding that any legislator or group opposed to abortion logically would also support this bill to protect the lives of unborn children like Conner from violent criminal actions, I welcome their support… what I find difficult to understand is why groups and legislators who champion the pro-choice cores are blind to the fact that these two victim crimes are the ultimate violation of choice.”
Sharon Rocha, letter sent by Sharon Rocha to key Congressional sponsors of The Unborn Victims of Violence Act, National Right to Life, hyyp://www.nrlc.org/unborn_victims/sharonrochalettertokeysponsors.html
Unborn Victims of Violence Act was signed by Pres. George Bush on April 1, 2004
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Quoted in Marybeth T. Hagan “Abortion: a Mother’s Plea for Maternity and the Unborn” (Liguori, Missouri: Triumph, 2005) 84
In maintaining that men who kill women’s wanted unborn children go unpunished, the pro-choice movement has betrayed the women it claims to serve.
