Protecting Unborn Victims of Violence

This week’s recommendation in the Civitas Institute Agenda “20 Changes for 2010: A Primer for State Reform” focuses on protecting unborn victims of violence.

14.) Protect unborn victims of violence by law.

82% of North Carolinians support a fetal homicidelaw according to an April 2008 poll of likely voters conducted by the Civitas Institute.

North Carolina law should extend specific legal protection to the unborn child of pregnant mothers who choose to carry their child to term. Both the lives of the pregnant woman and the unborn should be explicitly protected by North Carolina law. 

Recommendation:

Pass a law to establish separate criminal offenses for the death or injury of an unborn child resulting from a violent crime against the pregnant mother.