Focus on the Family's CitizenLink reports on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act's passage:
President Bush has pledged to quickly sign into law the bill classifying preborn children as victims in attacks on their mothers.
. . . Focus on the Family Chairman Dr. James C. Dobson applauded those senators who voted to defend "the most innocent victims in our society."
"Today's vote affirms in law what is common sense to more than 80 percent of Americans," he said. "There are two victims in violent crimes committed against pregnant women."
Carrie Gordon Earll, bioethics analyst at Focus on the Family, said the bill's passage "helps to rectify the schizophrenia in our culture regarding the value of preborn life."
"Either young human life has value in our culture and is worth protecting," she said, "or it's not."
So now, federally speaking, if you're a fetus the only person who can legally murder you is, well, your mom.
OK, sorry. Too sarcastic. We should all rejoice that this bill passed, especially without the two poison pill amendments, one of which was voted down by only a one vote margin.
The full article has CapWiz links you can use to thank all of the senators who spoke on the Senate floor in defense of the unborn.
Some Analysis and Outrage:
Charles Krauthammer's searing rebuke of Richard Clarke is a must read.
Click here for reason number 10,042 why the U.S. should not want to become more like Europe.
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