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- Please write to your two U.S. Senators, and ask them to support the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 503) in the form passed by the House of Representatives on April 26 (see story, page 1). Also urge them to co-sponsor the Senate companion bill, S. 480, introduced by Senator Mike DeWine (R-Ohio). As of May 3, Senators Sam Brownback (R-Ks.), John Ensign (R-Nv.), Michael Enzi (R-Wy.), Peter Fitzgerald (R-Il.), Chuck Hagel (R-Ne.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Jesse Helms (R-NC), Tim Hutchinson (R-Ar.), Jim Inhofe (R-Ok.), Don Nickles (R-Ok.), Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), and George Voinovich (R-Ohio) had co-sponsored the bill.
Urge your senators to oppose the "one-victim" substitute legislation being pushed by opponents of the bill, because the law should recognize that when a criminal injures a pregnant woman and her unborn child, he has claimed two victims, not just one.
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