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Key Documents

--State Homicide Laws that Recognize Unborn Victims
(Fetal Homicide)

--Court Decisions on State Unborn Victims Laws 

--Key Facts on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act
-- April 1, 2004
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--NRLC Ad:  "Don't tell me that my dead son was not a real crime victim!"
--May 21, 2002

--U.S. House passed 417-0 a bill to ban execution of a woman who carries a "child in utero" -- April, 2001
(PDF file)

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

One Victim or Two?  Results from Three National Polls
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--Rebuttal to misrepresentations of Unborn Victims of Violence Act -- Sept., 1999

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Unborn Victims of Violence
                                                        (Fetal Homicide)

One Victim, or Two?

This is a photo of Tracy Marciniak Seavers, holding the body of her son Zachariah.  The photo was taken at Zachariah's funeral. Tracy was seriously injured, and Zachariah was killed, by an assault during the ninth month of the pregnancy.  Do you think this photograph shows one victim, or two? 

For many more stories and photos of crimes that have two victims, click here.

2004:  President Bush Signs  Federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act Into Law

State Homicide Laws that Recognize Unborn Victims (Fetal Homicide) -- July 5, 2012

Court Decisions on State Unborn Victims Laws 

Stabbing death reveals total lack of right to life for unborn child in the District of Columbia -- March 23, 2012

President Bush Signs Unborn Victims of Violence Act Into Law, After Dramatic One-vote Win in Senate -- April 6, 2004

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

Some Reactions to the Enactment of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act -- April 1, 2004

California Supreme Court upholds conviction for murder of human "fetus" even if pregnancy unknown --April 5, 2004

NRLC Condemns John Kerry for voting against the Unborn Victims of Violence Act -- March 25, 2004

Key Facts on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act  -- Updated April 1, 2004
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Read the historic Senate debate on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act -- March 25, 2004

Excerpts from U.S. Senate floor debate -- March 25, 2004

The Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 1997), also known as "Laci and Conner's Law," as enacted into law -- April 1, 2004

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White House Statement of Administration Policy in favor of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 1997) -- March 25, 2004

U.S. Department of Justice says the Feinstein Substitute does not properly define an offense and does not properly provide a penalty. -- March 24, 2004

What do those who have suffered two-victim crimes say about the Lofgren-Feinstein "single-victim substitute"?  -- January, 2004
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Read what some prominent legal experts who favor Roe v. Wade say about "fetal homicide" laws and the Unborn Victims of Violence Act  -- February 2, 2004
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NRLC letter to U.S. Senators opposing the Feinstein Substitute to the Unborn Victims of Violence Act -- March 16, 2004
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U.S. House passes Unborn Victims of Violence Act; Sharon Rocha rebukes Senate Democrats, as Senate showdown nears -- March 7, 2004

Official report of the Judiciary Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, explaining how the Unborn Victims of Violence Act would work -- February 11, 2004
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Remember Their Names  By NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson -- February 5, 2004

What Conner Peterson's Grandmother Had to Explain to Senator John Kerry
By NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson -- February 5, 2004

Read what Senator John Kerry says about the Unborn Victims of Violence Act
To read the response from Sharon Rocha, click here   (To view PDF version, click here-- requires free Adobe Acrobat Reader)

One Victim or Two?  Results from Three National Polls
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Read NRLC's letter to the Senate in support of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act and against the Feinstein 'single-victim substitute'  -- Feb. 1, 2004     To view PDF version, click here

Text of the Lofgren single-victim bill proposed as a hostile substitute to the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 2247)
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From NRL News:  Senate Democrats Stall Unborn Victims Bill With Amendments on Unrelated Issues -- August 5, 2002

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

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

Newsweek poll on unborn victims of violence -- May 31, 2003
(To read or download Microsoft Word version, click here)