ACLU Action Alert: Oppose Covert Attacks on Reproductive Freedom! The newest front in the battle against reproductive freedom is a bill drafted with the assistance of the National Right to Life Committee and called the “Unborn Victims of Violence Act”, H.R. 503, which creates a new offense of injuring or causing the death of a fetus during the commission of a federal crime — an attempt to establish a dangerouslegal principle of the recognition of the fetus as an independent victim of a crime with rights distinct from the woman who has been harmed by a violent criminal act. Under the guise of protecting women, this is an unprecedented assault on a woman’s freedom of choice. Except to undermine reproductive freedom, there is no justification for a new law rather than more robust enforcement of existing laws against violent crime. One-click faxing to your U.S. Representative from this site to register your opposition.