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McCain on Choice: Unborn Victims of Violence Act

Started by menstrualpoetry · 10 months ago

The Unborn Victims of Violence Act was signed by President Bush on April 1, 2004. The Unborn Victims of Violence Act is a law that grants separate legal status to unborn fetuses and embryos and defines them as being a legal victim if injured or killed “at any stage of development in t ... Continue reading »

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Sasha
1 year ago

I love your domain name!

I hope McCain doesn't become president. It's really a slippery slope between appearing to protect rights and trying to take them away... it is scary to see how some states interpret this act. I thought McCain was pro embryonic stem cell research? And I doubt he'd be in opposition to IVF, where many of the embryos are never brought to term... so it seems stupid that he would want try to define them as human.

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Ali
1 year ago

This is true how you described it, they think that after getting pregnant a woman is an incubator for the baby. A while back Catholic groups started a campaign against Amnesty because Amnesty wanted to protect the pregnant victims of rape and give them the choice to abort. How can they say that the fetus has rights as a human and the mother (even if she is very young and victim of rape) doesn't have any rights?

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Per Chow
1 year ago

This is interesting, I was always under the assumption that McCain was pro-choice and enjoyed that republicans on the right and evangelicals had a hard time with him. But I guess I was wrong on that, thanks for posting this!

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Tabbie
1 year ago

God, I hate that... twit. Why, why, why do MEN think they have the right to do this?

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Tara
1 year ago

In response to the quote from Kate Michelman: Did you even bother to read the Unborn Victims of Violence Act? You will see that it says, "Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit the prosecution- (1) of any person for conduct relating to an abortion for which the consent of the pregnant woman, or a person authorized by law to act on her behalf, has been obtained or for which such consent is implied by law; (2) of any person for any medial treatment of the pregnant woman or her unborn child; or (3) of any woman with respect to her unborn child." This law is not intended to interfere or overturn a woman's right to choose. I believe in a woman's right to choose. But I also believe in bringing justice to the person who killed my friend's daughter and unborn grandson. We grieve for them both, not just one.

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