{"id":7636,"date":"2004-03-25T21:49:28","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T21:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/happy_annunciation.html"},"modified":"2004-03-25T21:49:28","modified_gmt":"2004-03-25T21:49:28","slug":"happy_annunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/happy_annunciation.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Annunciation!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of the Feast of the Annunciation, John Kerry voted against the Unborn Victims of Violence Act<\/a><\/p>\n

The Senate cleared the way for passage with a 50-49 vote to defeat an amendment, backed by opponents of the bill, that would have increased penalties for harm to a pregnant woman but did not attempt to define when human life begins.<\/p>\n

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., President Bush’s opponent this fall, interrupted his campaign schedule to vote yes on the amendment. He voted no on final passage.<\/p>\n

The bill states that an assailant who attacks a pregnant woman while committing a violent federal crime can be prosecuted for separate offenses against both the woman and her unborn child. The legislation defines an “unborn child” as a child in utero, which it says “means a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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