President Bush signed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act on April 1 – legislation marking significant gain for the pro-life cause. Brenda Fastabend of Lynchburg, President of Virginia Society for Human Life, and Geline Williams of Richmond, Chairman of the National Right Life Committee, were among the invited guests in the East Room of the White House for the signing ceremony.

We must now make every effort to encourage Governor Mark Warner to sign into law the two Fetal Homicide bills that were passed overwhelmingly by the Virginia General Assembly. Similar to the federal law, the bills will make it a chargeable crime under state law if an unborn child is killed in an attack on his pregnant mother, recognizing the child himself as a victim of the crime in addition to his mother. This legislation, strongly supported by the Virginia Society for Human Life, now awaits the Governor’s signature in order to become law.

ACTION REQUESTED:

Telephone: (804) 786-2211, Dial “O”, and ask for “Special Assistant”
Fax: (804) 371-6351
E-mail: Use the Governor's Electronic Correspondence Form.

Thank you for your great help!

VSHL is the Virginia affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee.