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EXPECTING. PRINCESS MASAKO, 37, wife of Naruhito, heir to the Japanese throne; in Tokyo. According to the Imperial Household Agency, the Princess is "showing signs" that she is seven or eight weeks pregnant. It will be the couple's first child. The palace blamed Masako's 1999 miscarriage in part on media scrutiny...
...course of an armed robbery, a woman is killed. Her family asks for an autopsy, which reveals the victim was pregnant when she died. Will her killer be charged with one or two counts of murder...
...Congress pass the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, the killer would be responsible for not only the woman?s death but also that of her unborn child. Depending on who's describing it, the bill will either ensure adequate prosecution of anyone who takes two lives by killing a pregnant woman or open the doors to further restriction of abortion rights. The UVVA, sponsored by South Carolina Republican Representative Lindsey Graham, easily passed a House vote Thursday - but supporters expect an uphill battle in the Senate, where Ohio Republican Mike DeWine recently introduced a duplicate bill...
California Democrat Zoe Lofgren characterizes Graham?s bill as an attempt "to alter the Constitution through statute." Thursday, Lofgren, who also sponsored an unsuccessful alternative to Graham?s 1999 bill, presented a rider that would have enhanced penalties for anyone who attacks a pregnant woman (whether the pregnancy was known to the attacker or not), but would have classified such an act as a single-victim crime. Voted down in 1999, Lofgren?s alternative was defeated Thursday as well...
...soldering irons and ripped his genitals off. What did this man do to deserve such a heinous punishment? According to Amnesty International, he was tortured to death because the officials were trying to make him reveal the whereabouts of his wife, whom they “suspected of being pregnant without permission...