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...believe that a woman who gets an abortion should be prosecuted for murder, just like a mother who hires a professional killer to off her teenage son? Are you picketing around fertility clinics, which kill hundreds of thousands of unborn children--if that's what you believe a 5-day-old embryo to be--just like abortion clinics do? If so, you are entitled to oppose stem-cell research. If not, please...
...more fevered or more personal. And that is why it would be a terrible self-inflicted wound for the Catholic Church to enter the culture war so brazenly in a political year. It is one thing for the church to preach what it believes--the sanctity of unborn human life. It is another thing to use the sacraments of the church to enforce political uniformity on the matter. How many of us Catholics are completely worthy every Sunday of receiving what we believe to be the body and blood of Jesus? The church understands this and has long left...
...most recent, and possibly the most underhanded, anti-choice crusade has centered on the misnamed Unborn Victims of Violence Act (UVVA). The legislation was pitched as a way to provide tougher punishments for criminals, but its real purpose was to set a precedent for referring to fetuses as legal entities with legal rights. Congressional Democrats offered a separate piece of legislation that would have provided equally strong sentences for those who injure pregnant women, but pro-life members of Congress killed the legislation. They didn’t want a bill that would punish criminals unless it would also help...
...most contentious issue, of course, is abortion. Congress recently passed the “Unborn Victims of Violence Act,” a law that effectively grants fetuses the legal status of persons. At issue is clearly not the protection of pregnant women—an otherwise identical bill that dropped the-fetus-as-person language was shot down. Even many pro-life supporters unapologetically admit that the law is intended to lay the groundwork for a future legal challenge...
...what critics call partial-birth abortion, the Senate last week voted, 61 to 38, to make it a crime to injure or kill a fetus when a pregnant woman is attacked in a federal crime. The House, spurred by the killing of Laci Peterson and her unborn son in California more than a year ago, passed the measure in February, and President Bush has promised to sign it. Supporters deny it is linked to abortion, pointing out that 29 states already have unborn-victim laws. "This bill is about simple justice," said Republican Senator Mike DeWine. But pro-choice advocates...