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Unborn Victims of Violence Act - just?
Posted: 03.30.2004
Technician Editorial Board

As the Unborn Victims of Violence Act stands now, it recognizes the fetus as a person. By legal definition, the fetus is a being at any point after conception. The act states that the court can bring charges against a criminal if he commits a crime against a fetus by way of hurting the mother.

http://technicianonline.com/story.php?id=009288

The Senate voted to recognize the fetus as a person from conception, and this is where the discrepancy lies.

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Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2003: Bill S. 146
When does an embryo or fetus become a human person?

http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_uvva.htm

The bill uses the terms "child in utero," "child," and "unborn child" to refer to "a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb." This clearly includes, as a minimum, the full interval of pregnancy, starting when the blastocyst (fertilized ovum) is fully attached to the wall of the uterus and continuing to birth.

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With the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act" a 2 celled fertilized ovum is granted legal, "personhood" status. By medical definition, the fetus is not a "fetus" until eight weeks gestational age. Regardless, this establishes major legal precedent. Attempts will be made to greatly broaden it's application. I am very serious when I ask, are gestating women afforded legal status equal to that of their "unborn"?

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