{"id":6170,"date":"2005-03-31T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T14:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/03\/31\/unborn-victims-of-violence-act-signed-into-law-in-west-virginia\/"},"modified":"2005-03-31T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2005-03-31T14:23:09","slug":"unborn-victims-of-violence-act-signed-into-law-in-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/03\/unborn-victims-of-violence-act-signed-into-law-in-west-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Unborn Victims of Violence Act signed into law in West Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">HEELING, W.Va. (CNS) &#8212; A law making it a separate crime to injure an unborn child drew praise from the bishop of West Virginia&#8217;s only Catholic diocese.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Bishop Michael J. Bransfield of Wheeling-Charleston congratulated the state Legislature for passing the Unborn Victims of Violence Act and praised Gov. Joe Manchin for signing it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;The passage of this law could not have come at a better time than the Easter season, with its promise of new life,&quot; said Bishop Bransfield after Manchin signed the bill March 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">The law establishes that an unborn child may be a separate and distinct victim in certain violent crimes against a pregnant woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">If an unborn child is injured or killed during particular crimes, the assailant may also be charged with that offense on behalf of the child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">It passed both houses of the legislature by overwhelming majorities. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.org\/cathcom\/national_story.php?id=13511\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEELING, W.Va. (CNS) &#8212; A law making it a separate crime to injure an unborn child drew praise from the bishop of West Virginia&#8217;s only Catholic diocese. Bishop Michael J.&hellip;<\/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-6170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}