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   From: perjury@hillaryclinton.com   
      
   State Senate President Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs, said   
   Friday that legislation is being prepared to address attacks   
   such as the one on Michelle Wilkins, whose fetus was cut from   
   her womb March 18.   
      
   He said the proposal would extend murder charges to the deaths   
   of "unborn children," although Democrats, who control the House,   
   said they passed such a measure in 2013 and would block any   
   proposed law that would undermine abortion rights.   
      
   Cadman called the Wilkins case "one of the most horrific crimes   
   in recent memory."   
      
   "This shocking lack of murder charges, in defense of an obvious   
   murder victim, not only deeply offends our sense of humanity and   
   justice," he said in a statement. "It also highlights a void in   
   Colorado law that must be addressed if we want to give a measure   
   of justice to this child that Boulder's DA can't or won't.   
      
   "This was a child. This child was murdered. That Coloradans have   
   no way to hold the murderer responsible, or deliver justice for   
   the victims, is a gap in Colorado's justice system which can no   
   longer be ignored."   
      
   Rep. Mike Foote, D-Lafayette, said the law he sponsored two   
   years ago, called the Crimes Against Pregnant Women Act, gave   
   prosecutors and judges the ability to "administer justice   
   without taking away a woman's right to choose."   
      
   The law created felony offenses for unlawful termination of a   
   pregnancy, while excluding medical services for which the mother   
   gives consent.   
      
   Foote said bills such as the one Cadman proposed Friday, which   
   are raised almost every session by Republicans, seek to define a   
   fetus as a person with legal rights separate from the mother.   
      
   "Those are personhood bills, and they're supported by people who   
   want to ban abortions in all circumstances," he said. "I don't   
   think we should do that. I don't think that's the right way to   
   go."?   
      
   http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27800078/colorado-senate-   
   prepare-fetal-homicide-bill?source=infinite   
      
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