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Feticide = Murder; Abortion = Choice; Same Outcome
By Valerie Jane | July 29, 2007
Pro-Choicers don’t care how a pregnancy may prematurely end, just as long as the laws don’t call it murder. They want choice, but if you choose life they will turn their backs and walk away if the “fetus” dies unnaturally because of violence towards the Mother. From Stateline.org published August 22, 2006:
A wave of new state fetal homicide laws recognizing a fetus “of any gestational age” as a person and potential crime victim has abortion rights advocates worried the statutes could undermine a woman’s right to end her pregnancy.
This year, Alabama, Alaska, Oklahoma, South Carolina and West Virginia passed new fetal homicide statutes making it a separate offense to kill a fetus when a pregnant woman is murdered or assaulted. All five new laws apply to fetuses starting at conception.
States are using cookie-cutter language in fetal homicide laws, assigning legal rights to fetuses “at any gestational age,” said Sondra Goldschein, state strategies director for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Reproductive Freedom Project.
Abortion rights advocates argue the new laws are part of a legal strategy to establish that life begins at conception. “It’s the elevation of the status of the fetus that is going to erode the right to access abortion,” Goldschein said.
The new fetal homicide laws are among the most prevalent state legislation related to the abortion issue in recent years, according to Kathryn Prael of NARAL Pro-Choice America. In 2005, state lawmakers proposed more of these bills than bills directly restricting abortion, she said.
Though fetal homicide laws have faced legal challenges on the grounds they conflict with Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion, none has been struck down.
The ACLU, NARAL and other abortion rights groups oppose laws that make fetal death a separate crime, but support stiffer penalties for those convicted of murdering or assaulting pregnant women. According to Goldschein, murder is the No. 1 cause of death in pregnant women.
“If lawmakers really wanted to stop violence against women, they could do other things like putting money into anti-domestic-violence programs and looking at why this is such a problem,” she said.
Welcome to the me, me, it’s all about me generation. Notice how they don’t care about the women who are victims? They just want to make sure they have access to abortion. Who cares if pregnant women are dying, right? As long as they can have their abortions. How heartless are 
these people? Putting money into anti-domestic violence program has been and is being done; it aint working. We’ve looked at why there is a problem and we know what causes it; we just can’t get the man to stop being a control freak while the woman is too terrified to speak for fear of being killed or worse. Shouldn’t the people who are for “Women’s rights” be the ones who should look into stopping domestic violence? Since they are for and support “Women’s rights” they should have all those resources available to them. Oh - I forgot - women’s rights are only for reproduction and screw the rest.
A woman who decides to keep her baby should have all the rights of a woman who has delivered her baby. It shouldn’t matter. Once you decide not to have an abortion and raise your child you receive a Mother’s heart. It doesn’t matter if that baby is inside your body or out - you are a Mother!
For information on how your state laws are regarding fetal homicide go here.
(1st picture: Tracy Marciniak Seavers was seriously injured by her husband 6 days before her due date, and her son Zachariah was killed. The photo was taken at Zachariah’s funeral.
2nd picture: Laci Peterson was 8 months pregnant when she was brutally murdered by her adulterous husband on December 24, 2002)
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