CHEYENNE n Gov Dave Freudenthal late Friday afternoon vetoed a bill that would have increased the penalty for killing a pregnant woman, on grounds it would plunge the state into the debate on abortion.
Under Senate File 118, people convicted of killing a pregnant woman would be charged with two counts of homicide, with the additional count coming from the death of her fetus.
Supporters said the bill would offer justice to victims such as Laci Peterson and her 8-month-old fetus, who were found in the San Francisco Bay after she disappeared Christmas Eve 2002. Her husband, Scott Peterson, was convicted in November 2004 of killing her and the fetus she carried.
Freudenthal's veto message said that statements by proponents that it is not intended to be part of the abortion debate and was intended solely to increase the protection of pregnant women “may be somewhat disingenuous.”
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Roe versus Wade was wrong.
Unborn children are family members.
And it would offer more justice.
How anyone would deny protection to their own unborn children is beyond me.
It underscores the logical gymnastics one has to use to justify the discrimination against unborn children. The unborn child is not a blob of tissue, but he's not a person; he's a homo sapiens, but nobody in particular. If a fetus gets hurt in the womb, but is born, that didn't really happen to him, it happened to a non-entity.
The governor would probably say his unborn children didn't exist in the womb.
Ridiculous.
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