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Federal Unborn Victims Law:
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Right To Life's Unborn Victims of Violence Page
Picture
of Traci Marciniak holding her son Zachariah, who was
killed in utero, at his funeral
Testimony
of Tracy Marciniak.
John
Ensign's Letter On UBVA
Answering
Arguments Against SB 299
Nevada LIFE Testimony
On SB 299:
Nevada
LIFE Testimony On SB 299, The NV Lacy and Connor's Law April 6,
2007.
Nevada
LIFE Supplemental Testimony On SB 299, The NV Lacy and
Connor's Law April 6, 2007.
Nevada LIFE Press
Releases:
Senate
Committee Guts NV Laci and Connor's Bill.
April
12, 2004
One
Victim or Two?
Nevada's Laci and Connor's Law Gets
Hearing Friday,
April 4, 2007.
Nevada
LIFE Press Release on Laci and Connor's Law Feb. 25, 2004
Nevada
LIFE Press Release on Laci and Connor's Law March 18, 2004
Nevada
Unborn Victims Bill Hearing April 6, 2007
SB 299:
Text
of SB 299.
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Senate
Committee Guts NV Laci & Connor's Bill
Removes
"Separate and Distinct Victims" Language.
The
Nevada Senate Judiciary Committee voted to gut language in SB
299 that would have made a mother and her unborn child distinct
and separate victims in an act of violence against the mother.
That separate and distinct victims language would have
allowed prosecutors to use laws of violence to prosecute those
who harm or injure unborn children.
That language was gutted and penalties will be increased
from 1-10 years in prison to 1-20 years in prison.
The maximum fine of $10,000 will remain the same.
Other situations other than willful killing will be
prosecutable too. Republicans control committees in the Senate.
What
does this mean? First,
the amendment which essentially guts the bill,
does almost nothing to increase protection for the unborn child
or his mother. Gutting
this language means that in the state of Nevada, your unborn
child is not a victim when he or she is injured or killed in an
act of violence or by other means, like drunk driving.
Second,
the committee’s vote for this amendment means that the child
you have named, been reading to and preparing a nursery for
during pregnancy is worth a $10,000 fine and maybe 1-20 years in
prison. And if your
child hasn’t reached the undefined stage of quickening or
viability, it doesn’t matter how long his heart has been
beating or how long his brain has been generating brain waves,
there’s no crime of manslaughter.
It
is a shame that in a law and order state like Nevada, we have
unborn child protection laws that are inferior to California,
which is the most criminal friendly state in America and ground
zero for the ACLU. Even
California has a law which protects the unborn from the 7th
and 8th weeks. That
law was used to convict Scott Peterson of murdering his unborn
son Connor Peterson. It’s
bizarre that California has more recognition of unborn children
than Nevada. We
have some protections here for unborn children.
They are better than nothing, but they hardly meet the
demands of justice for the unborn or the family and mother of
the unborn. But
then again, what do you expect when a committee lets a criminal
defense attorney write an amendment and a sponsor of the bill
doesn’t show up for the vote.
The
vote now goes to the Senate with a do pass recommendation.
Read
the original Text
of SB 299 by Senator Hardy. We need to call the
legislature and demand that senators reinstate Senator Hardy's
language.
Read
The Nevada LIFE Press Release, Senate
Committee Guts NV Laci and Connor's Bill
April 12, 2007
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