A grieving Vermont mother is fighting for passage of a bill which would declare that unborn babies are human beings.
Patricia Blair was driving a car last August when her van was struck head-on by a car that had crossed the center line. Blair's six-month-old unborn twins were killed, and Mary Hahn Beerworth of the Vermont Right to Life Committee explains that the loss was very deep for the mother. (See earlier article) "This is a family [that was] on pins and needles about bringing these young babies into the world because unfortunately, just one year before this terrible car crash, they lost a little baby girl. That full-term baby girl [was] delivered, but complications of the delivery led to her death," Beerworth reports. After the accident in August, the pro-life spokeswoman says, Blair was "amazed" to discover that the 22-year-old driver of the other vehicle -- who is accused of driving under the influence of prescription drugs -- could not be prosecuted for killing the babies because Vermont has not updated its definition of a person as 35 other states have done. "So Patricia Blair is anguished now, trying to struggle with the aftermath of what it has meant to her family to not only suffer this much loss, but [to also] be told that their babies' lives didn't count, didn't matter and Vermont has no regard for their lives," Beerworth notes. A bill has been introduced to change the law, and Blair is asking Vermont residents to contact their elected representatives to urge passage. She says, "I don't want any mother ever to have to wake up and have the state tell them their babies aren't babies."
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