For too many women, this is not a theoretical question. She was choked, hit with a gun, slapped, punched and kicked repeatedly in the stomach by assailants who turned out to have been hired by her baby's father. Shiwona came to Washington, D.C., to plead for national legal recognition of the crime against her baby. On April 25, the House of Representatives will choose between two versions of HR 503, The Unborn Victims of Violence Act. Pro-abortion forces are willing to do anything to defeat the full, unadulterated version, even though the bill specifically exempts legal abortions and any actions of the pregnant woman herself.
Foes claim it indirectly threatens Roe v. Wade.
Roe v. Wade may give to every pregnant woman the right to choose whether or not her fetus is a human being, but it does not therefore give to every felon a similar right to choose. Listen to Tracy Scheide's story before you decide. The next morning, his wife and child were killed. I don't think that would be right. The answer is not that hard.