State Action Alert

Calls, Faxes, e-mails needed to support including the killing of a fetus in the gross vehicular manslaughter provisions of our Penal Code.

Background:  Current penal code provisions provide legal causes of action and punishment when a person causes the death of another person while driving under the influence of alcohol or while committing some other unlawful act with gross negligence that might produce death.  Since unborn children are not specifically included in the statute, they are excluded because due to Roe v. Wade they are not considered “persons” in the law.  (California does have a “fetal homicide” statute,” in which unborn children are specifically covered in the language of the statute, which has been upheld by the California Supreme Court, but deaths due to negligence in auto accidents cannot be classified as homicides.)

AB 2693 would allow a cause of action for the death of a fetus under circumstances of gross vehicular manslaughter.  Parents who have lost an unborn child due to such negligence would finally have recourse in the law for their loss.

Although there is no issue of either “choice” or medicine in the deaths of these babies, we expect the full array of pro-abortion organizations, including professional medical organizations, to lobby and testify against AB 2693.  The mothers who lose their unborn babies in this violent way have already made the choice to carry their babies to term, but their “choice” is taken away from them by these negligent acts.

Call or FAX your own assembly member (or write to them at State Capitol, Sacramento, CA 95814), and call or FAX the Democratic members of the Assembly Public Safety Committee listed below to ask them to support AB 2693.  We expect AB 2693 to be taken up on Tuesday, April 2^nd (9:00 a.m., Room 126, State Capitol).  Phone calls or faxes will receive more attention than e-mails.  If you use e-mail, state your support in the subject line—e.g. "Support AB 2693—justice for fetal manslaughter"

Assembly Public Safety Committee:
Name (Party-District #), Phone number, FAX number, e-mail address: