Joe Pitts: “look at this picture of Tracy Marciniak and her dead son. This little boy is not a zygote, not a blastocyst, not an…”

“look at this picture of Tracy Marciniak and her dead son. This little boy is not a zygote, not a blastocyst, not an embryo, not a fetus, not anything but a little baby, a little child who was brutally killed. His name was Zachariah. He was killed by his father, a man by the name of Glendale Black, 4 days before he was due to be born. He was beaten in the womb where he bled to death. And his father got away with it. Yes, Glendale Black went to jail, but not because he killed Zachariah. He went to jail for assaulting Zachariah's mother. At the time, it was not a crime to kill a woman's baby in Wisconsin as long as he did it before he was born. If he had done it 4 or 5 days later, he might have gotten life imprisonment. Instead, he is now eligible for parole. Wisconsin has since changed its law. If Tracy's ex-husband committed the same crime today, he would be charged with killing her child as well as assaulting her. But the Federal Government has no such law. In Federal jurisdictions, that man could get away with killing again. Look again at this picture. How can anyone say that this child is not a human being? How can anyone say that Zachariah should not have the same right to live as you and I have? How can anyone say that the crime Zachariah's father committed was not more than just assault, but also taking of human life? Or as his mother Tracy herself says, ``If you really think that nobody died that night, then vote for the one-victim amendment.”