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Senate Approves "Alexa's Law"
Posted: 8:44 a.m. 4/5/07
Bill would allow suspects to be charged with murder or other crimes related to killing or injuring a fetus. |
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Topeka, Kan. (AP)_ The Kansas Senate approved a bill that allows prosecutors to charge someone with murder or other crimes for killing or injuring a fetus.
The bill, called "Alexa's Law," was named for the fetus of a Wichita teenager who was murdered.
The law says that the legal definition of a "person" includes an unborn child" at any stage in the womb for a list of crimes that includes murder, manslaughter, vehicular homicide and battery.
Abortion-rights supporters suspect the measure is a move toward outlawing abortion, even though a provision in the bill exempts abortions.
The bill now goes before the House, which will consider it when they return from their spring break on April 25th.
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