FRANKFORT, Ky. — After hearing from the grieving parents of a pregnant Scott County woman who was slain last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday approved a bill making it a crime to kill a fetus by killing or injuring the pregnant woman. <\/p>\n
“My daughter was stolen from me along with my grandson,” said a tearful Carol Lyons, whose daughter Ashley Lyons, 18, was 22 weeks pregnant when she was found shot to death Jan. 7 in a car at Scott County Community Park. <\/p>\n
Lyons testified alongside her husband, Buford Lyons, as they displayed a photo of the Scott County High School graduate. No one has been charged, and police continue to investigate. <\/p>\n
Senate Bill 4, sponsored by Sen. Richard Roeding, R-Lakeside Park, would offer protection from conception on. The bill cleared the committee by an 8-1 vote with little debate, sending the measure to the Senate floor. FRANKFORT, Ky. — After hearing from the grieving parents of a pregnant Scott County woman who was slain last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday approved a bill making it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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