ACTION ALERT:

Focus Public Attention on Obstruction of the

Unborn Victims Bill in the U.S. Senate!

All NRLC affiliates and other pro-life groups and citizens should promptly call their senators' offices and urge immediate approval of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, or "Laci and Conner's Law" (S. 1019). All senators' offices can be reached through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. Appropriate e-mail messages on the bill can be sent for free through the Legislative Action Center at the National Right to Life website at www.nrlc.org.

In addition, pro-life groups and citizens should send letters for publication in local newspapers and websites, and call local radio talk shows, to generate public attention to the continued obstruction of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act in the U.S. Senate. Here are some of the key points to get across:

* The issue boils down to this: When a criminal attacks a pregnant woman, injuring or killing her, and also injuring or killing her unborn child - - has he claimed one victim, or two?

* According to a Newsweek poll released on June 1, 84% of the public believe that the killing of the unborn child during a crime should be recognized as a homicide (56% throughout development, another 28% after "viability"), while only 9 percent disagreed.

* Surviving family members of unborn victims of violence, such as Sharon Rocha (grandmother of Conner Peterson) and Tracy Marciniak (mother of Zachariah) are imploring Congress to pass the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, and to reject the "single-victim substitute." In a letter to lawmakers, Rocha said that "adoption of such a single-victim amendment would be a painful blow to those, like me, who are left alive after a two-victim crime, because Congress would be saying that Conner and other innocent unborn victims like him are not really victims--indeed, that they never really existed at all. But our grandson did live. He had a name, he was loved, and his life was violently taken from him before he ever saw the sun."

* For additional information and documents on unborn victims of violence, visit the NRLC website section on the issue at: http://www.nrlc.org/Unborn_victims/index.html.