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The Unborn Victims Of Violence

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When it comes to fetal rights and homicide it is not a new issue in legislative terms. “The Unborn Victims of Violence Act has been vehemently attacked by pro-abortion groups such as NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and the ACLU. Even though this law deals with acts of violence other than abortion, the pro-abortion lobby’s ideology apparently compels it to deny the very existence of unborn human beings in any area of the law” (The National Right to Life Committee, 2000). Between pro-life and pro-choice advocates the upper hand in which everyone wants to claim has become a continuous issue. Over the years the debate in which a fetus is killed by a violent act against a pregnant woman has grown over time, in regards as to what philosophies there are as to the start of life. In some areas the penalties have grown more significant, viewing them as fetal homicide. Where others refuse to do anything in which a fetus is recognized as a separate individual, stating that a fetus has no rights. There have been various arguments to the different sides of the situation in regards to the separation of a woman and her fetus and whether or not it is appropriate to ignore the harm to the pregnant woman and unborn child. “Those who were allied with these groups, offered “single-victim substitute” proposals. These bills would have codified the doctrine that a crime against a pregnant woman has only a single victim, while also creating a new federal crime of “interruption to the normal course of the

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