Laci and Conners Law
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Laci and Conner's Law
The highly publicized Lacy Peterson case has brought a lot of attention to about the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act" and the debate over fetal rights to the public. Scott Peterson the husband of the slain woman has been accused of killing his college sweetheart wife, Laci, a 27-year-old substitute teacher who was about a month away from delivering their first child, dumped her body in the ocean and then told her family and police detectives that she had simply vanished from their home6. Scott Peterson has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder, one for his wife and one for his son. Under California law, a fetus over the age of seven weeks can be considered a murder victim. Federal administrators are trying to pass this act so that it would allow anyone who causes death or bodily harm to an unborn child would be charged with a separate federal offense. Currently, unborn children are not recognized as victims when they are injured or killed during the commission of federal crimes. The (UVVA) would apply only to federal crimes, not to crimes of violence covered by state laws. There have been two arguments on the (UVVA). Arguments on the one-victim approach, and the two-victim approach, supporters of the one-victim approach insist that when a criminal injures a mother and kills her unborn child, there has been only a compound injury to the mother but no loss of any human life.1 The Unborn Victims of Violence Act has come under attack from pro-abortion groups such as NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and the ACLU...