Justice for both victims
By Samantha Kepler and Christine Elliot | April 8, 2004LAST THURSDAY, President Bush signed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 1997), or "Laci and Conner's Law." This measure recognizes two victims in any federal crime that causes injury or death to a pregnant woman and her unborn child and protects the "child in utero" as "a member of the species homo sapiens at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb." H.R.
