{"id":1115,"date":"2004-09-28T10:59:36","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T18:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/28\/the-unborn-victims-of-violence-act\/"},"modified":"2004-09-28T10:59:36","modified_gmt":"2004-09-28T18:59:36","slug":"the-unborn-victims-of-violence-act-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"The Unborn Victims of Violence Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

So was the Unborn Victmis of Violence Act really about protecting pregnant women, or was it about getting a pro-life precident written into law? Bush Campaign Lies<\/a> has the answer – I hope they don’t mind if I quote extensively.<\/p>\n

Finally, there’s Kerry’s vote against <\/a>the Laci Peterson law. He did vote against this bill, but it is wrong to conclude that Kerry opposes stronger penalties for crimes against pregnant women. Kerry opposed this bill because it codifies into law the notion that life begins at conception, which starkly contradicts the position of the pro-choice movement. As a committed supporter of a woman’s right to choose, Kerry voted against the bill. And the Bush camp clearly understands this, since they bother to charge that Kerry ‘Placed Abortion Politics Over Unborn Victims Of Violence’.<\/p>\n

Actually, the exact reverse is true. It is Senate Republicans who placed abortion politics over unborn victims of violence. The fact is that Republicans exploited the Laci Peterson tragedy in order to gain support for the bill — and demonize its opponents — precisely <\/i>so that they could pass legislation which accords the same rights to a fetus as to anyone else.<\/p>\n

How do I know this? Because Dianne Feinstein introduced a substitute amendment (S. Amdt 2858) which would have effectively replaced the Unborn Victims of Violence Act with legislation which, according to Feinstein:<\/p>\n

“. . . include(s) the same structure, the same crimes, and the exact same penalties as the DeWine bill. The only real difference between our amendment and the DeWine bill is that we do not attempt to place into law language defining life as beginning at conception–beginning with an embryo.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those who are truly concerned with ‘protecting pregnant women from violence’ would happily support the Feinstein amendment, which was defeated <\/a>50-49, with 47 Republicans voting against it (and yes, Kerry voted for it). Only those whose true intent is to ‘place abortion politics above unborn victims of violence’ would reject the Feinstein amendment in favor of a bill which sticks a thumb in the eye of Roe v. Wade.<\/div>\n

Bush Campaign Lies<\/a>, by the way, is a new blog with a very tight focus on rebutting statements made by the Bush campaign. An excellent resource if you’re involved in any Bush v Kerry arguments and you’re looking for ammo. :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So was the Unborn Victmis of Violence Act really about protecting pregnant women, or was it about getting a pro-life precident written into law? Bush Campaign Lies has the answer – I hope they don’t mind if I quote extensively. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}