The Innocent Child Protection Act codified the long-standing principle that the government must never kill an innocent unborn child in the course of carrying out the death penalty. The Unborn Victims of Violence Act recognizes unborn children as victims of federally prohibited crimes of violence. If someone injures or kills an unborn child while committing a violent federal crime against a pregnant woman, the assailant will be charged with a separate offense on behalf of the unborn child. The bill simply puts federal law behind the common sense recognition that when a criminal attacks a pregnant woman, and injures or kills her unborn child, he has claimed two human victims. The Partial-birth abortion Act would have banned a ghastly procedure that legally differs from infanticide by only three inches, and no civilized society should condone or tolerate it.
Most doctors agree the procedure has no medical merit.
Legislation to ban this horrible procedure easily passed in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. I was proud to join the overwhelming majority of my colleagues in voting to abolish partial-birth abortions. Unfortunately President Clinton refused to allow a ban on partial-birth abortions to be enacted into law . For nearly eight years, his Administration pushed to make abortion more readily available. A 12-step course in population control for Bill Gates .