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West Virginia Governor Signs Unborn Victims of Violence Act.(Christy and Ashley's Law,")(Unborn Victims of Violence Act,)
When pro-life Governor Joe Manchin (D) signed "Christy and Ashley's Law," West Virginia joined 30 states and the federal government in recognizing unborn children as separate victims of crime.
"This bill is about putting bad people in jail who do horrible things to pregnant women...and the children they are carrying," state Senator Jeff Kessler (D) remarked during the March 28 ceremony in which Gov. Manchin signed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (Senate Bill 146).
"The legislation was signed into law because, in 2004, West Virginia elected for the first time a pro-life Democratic governor completing our successes in recent years of electing an overwhelmingly pro-life legislature," said Wanda Franz, Ph.D., president of NRLC and West Virginia's representative on the NRLC board of directors. "This is a far different situation from just a few years ago, when either a pro-abortion leadership in the legislature would derail pro-life legislation or when a pro-abortion governor would veto such legislation."
Dr. Franz added, "These are the fruits of patient work at the grassroots level of identifying and informing pro-life voters."
The Democratically controlled legislature sent a strong message to criminals who would injure or kill pregnant women and their unborn children. The Senate approved the measure 32-2, the first bill passed by the Senate during the 2005 legislative session. The House of Delegates adopted the bill by a vote of 81-17 and sent it to the governor.
The law is named for Christy and Ashley Alberts of Charleston. Christy was nearly nine months pregnant when she was shot execution style, killing both her and her unborn daughter, whom she had already named Ashley Nicole.
The Alberts family was devastated to learn that no murder charges would be filed on behalf of little Ashley. In fact, because West Virginia did not have a fetal homicide law, Ashley was not recognized as a victim at all. It was forbidden to even mention Christy's pregnancy during the trial of the murderers.
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