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Crimes That Claim Two Victims

 

Key Document
"Remember Their Names"  By NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson -- February 5, 2004

Family Members of Unborn Victims Go to Washington to Help Pass Bill -- April 5, 2004

"The Invisible Human Victim."  How Washington Post editors explained why Jonah Fliegelman's photo could not appear in the newspaper.  Essay by Douglas Johnson, National Review Online -- March 30, 2004

"Justice for Unborn Victims."  Amber Denise Huff and Michael James Lenz III died in the 1997 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.  So why don't their names appear on the list of victims?  An op-ed by Douglas Johnson, published in The Daily Oklahoman --March 24, 2004

"Will Florida senators see the second victim?"  Julius Dyke, age 11, has grave disabilities and scars from the murderer's knife that also killed his mother.  So why does Florida law say he was not a crime victim?  An op-ed by Douglas Johnson, published in the Florida Baptist Witness --March 18, 2004.
(A shorter version of this op-ed appeared in the Miami Herald on March 7, 2004.)

"Seeking Justice for Unborn Victims."  Three members of a Lynchburg family were gunned down in their home.  Why did the Commonwealth of Virginia file only two homicide charges?  An op-ed by Douglas Johnson that appeared in the Virginian-Pilot (and three other newspapers) -- March, 2004.
(PDF file -- requires free Adobe Acrobat Reader)

"A Chance to Punish Two-Victim Crimes."  Charged with double homicide, a man argued in court that he had not known the woman was one month pregnant.  What answer did the Minnesota Supreme Court give him?  An op-ed by Douglas Johnson, published in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (February 29, 2004)

"One victim or two in Bangor homicide?"  Killing the four cats was a crime -- but killing unborn Jonah Fliegelman was not.  An op-ed by NRLC's Douglas Johnson, published in the Portland, Maine, Press-Herald -- February 24, 2004.

"Conner, Ashley, and Landon."  In 2000, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 417-0 to prohibit a death sentence from being carried out on a woman who carries a "child in utero."  What were they thinking?  An essay by Douglas Johnson on National Review Online.  (March 24, 2004)

"Unborn Are Victims, Too."  The Unborn Victims of Violence Act and the Laci-Conner Peterson case.  Op-ed by Douglas Johnson in the San Francisco Chronicle -- March 30, 2004

Testimony of Tracy Marciniak, surviving mother, before House Judiciary Constitution Subcommittee, July 8, 2003 
Click HERE to view or download Microsoft Word version -- July 8, 2003
 

"Don't tell me that my dead son was not a real crime victim!" 
Click HERE to see or download this ad from NRLC. -- May 14, 2003
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Read a letter dated June 16, 2003 from Sharon Rocha -- mother of Laci Peterson, grandmother of Conner Peterson -- to key sponsors of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, in which she says the double murder of Laci and Conner "does provide a powerful illustration of why this type of law is absolutely necessary."  To see an image of the letter, click here (PDF file -- requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) -- June 27, 2003

The Family of Laci and Conner Peterson Urge Congress to Pass the Unborn Victims of Violence Act "In Their Memory" -- May 7, 2003
(To view or download a PDF replica of the letter, click HERE -- requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.)

Some Cases of Homicides of Unborn Children Under Federal or Military Jurisdiction -- May 8, 2003

Read Shiwona Pace's account:  "As they beat me, one said, 'Your baby is dying tonight.'" -- April, 2001  
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