Bill: Killing Unborn Could Be Murder--Unless Mom or Medical Pro Does It

(CNSNews) – Republican lawmakers in Colorado have introduced a bill that would allow someone to be charged with murder for killing an unborn child, prompted by the attack on a pregnant woman whose baby was cut from her womb.

Michelle Wilkins was responding to a Craigslist ad for baby clothes on March 18 when she was beaten and her baby, Aurora, was cut from her womb and later died. Dynel Lane was charged with the attack on Wilkins and with unlawful termination of a pregnancy – which carries a penalty of up to 32 years in jail - but not for Aurora’s murder.

District Attorney Stan Garnett said that’s because the coroner concluded that Aurora was not alive outside the womb, so the baby did not qualify as a person under state law, TheDenverChannel.com reported on March 26.

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