Breaking: "First Degree Homicide Of The Unborn Child Bill" Passes CO House On Second Reading

[Bolo Boffin]

101. Pachamama has the text of the bill as passed by the CO House

Here's the original version - much longer and what the summary is talking about:

http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2012a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/B2C357AC24743FFA87257981007F18F3?open&file=1130_01.pdf

The summary in Pachamama's bill refers to this, but not the actual bill that was passed. They vacated this bill, the one that was doing the definition of new felonies, and replaced it with the one sentence that says the death or injury of an "unborn member of Homo Sapiens" during the commmision of any other crime in the bill would allow prosecution of homicide or injury for the unborn member concurrent with the underlying charges.

So if someone attempts to murder a pregnant woman, but only kills the fetus, then the criminal can face attempted murder charges for the attack on the woman and murder charges in the death of the fetus. That's in the bill that was passed. Even if the mother didn't know she was pregnant, as in she just became pregnant the day before the attack, and the attack results in the termination of the pregnancy (something that might come up in the investigation), the attacker can be brought up on murder charges for the expiration of the blastocyte.

The original bill seemed much worse, but this is bad enough regarding the legal recognition of the fetus from the moment of conception. It's not getting full personhood recognition yet, but it's getting there.