Unborn Victims of Violence ActDescriptionThis legislation provides that any person who injures or kills a child in utero during the commission of already defined federal crimes (including those in military law) would be guilty of two separate offenses – harm to the mother and harm to the child. The death penalty would not be imposed. Abortions are excluded.
On April 1, 2004, President George W. Bush signed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act into law (Public Law 108-212). |
