About that war on women.
TALLAHASSEE, FL, May 14, 2014 – Democratic Party Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has branded a bill to punish men who trick their girlfriends into aborting against their will, or who otherwise kill a woman’s unborn child, “senseless” and “extreme.”
Wasserman Schultz blasted two pro-life measures that Florida Gov. Rick Scott is expected to sign into law.
The state legislature passed the Offenses Against Unborn Children bill after Remee Jo Lee’s story went national last year.
Andrew John Welden tricked Lee, his girlfriend, into taking a bottle of Cytotec (misoprostol) that he had falsely labeled as “Amoxicillin.” She miscarried their child, which she desperately wanted and had already named, last Easter. But Lee was surprised to learn that, because of an oversight in Florida law, Welden could not be charged with harming their unborn baby. Prosecutors could only charge him with violating the federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act because he was accused of breaking federal laws against product tampering.
Florida is one of 14 states that provide no legal remedy for mothers whose unborn children are killed before the point of viability.
That’s when Lee and her family threw their support behind the Offenses Against Unborn Children Act, which treats a crime that harms an unborn child as a separate offense from any damage inflicted on the mother.