On Wednesday, the Senate Health Policy Committee in Tallahassee discussed the Florida Unborn Victims of Violence Act sponsored by Sen. Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland, which would punish anyone who commits a crime that harms a fetus.
Critics call it something else: fetal personhood, to be exact.
Today, Democrats on the committee, as well as some members of the public, blasted the proposed legislation as an attempt to erode the 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision legalizing women to having an abortion in this country.
This article appears in Mar 21-27, 2013.