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Laci Peterson and the Politics of Abortion

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Murder made Laci Peterson a household name. Now, massive news coverage of her disappearance, and the homicide charges against her philandering husband, have turned her case into another battleground in the war over abortion. Scott Peterson has been charged with two murders since California law says that killing a fetus is homicide, unless it died as the result of a legal abortion. Now, Republican Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio has reintroduced the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which would allow prosecution for harming or killing a fetus during a federal crime. What does that mean for women-s rights under Roe versus Wade? We hear from representatives of the pro-life and pro-choice movements and a law professor from Columbia University-s School of Law.
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Unborn Victims of Violence Act (S146)

LAPD

LA Times Article, -An Outsider Takes On LA's Gang Problem-

LA Urban League

West Angelus Church in Christ (Bishop Charles Blake)

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Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.

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