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Crist likes bill expanding vehicular homicide charge to killing of unborn at any development stage

Posted Mar 9, 2010 by Catherine Whittenburg, Tallahassee bureau

Updated Mar 9, 2010 at 03:42 PM

Gov. Charlie Crist said this morning that he would “probably support” a bill that would expand the definition of vehicular homicide to the killing of any human, “at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb.”

Sponsored by Sen. Mike Fasano, the proposal would expand a current law which applies the charge of vehicular homicide to a viable fetus, defined by courts as generally occurring at the end of the second trimester. Fasano’s bill, which is sponsored in the House by Republican Rep. Ralph Poppell of Vero Beach, comes up for a hearing later today.

Abortion rights activists generally oppose such proposals, since they expand definitions and protections of human life to the earliest stages of development. Such laws could complicate or restrict abortion rights.

Crist—who has been criticized by Senate primary opponent Marco Rubio as not being ardently pro-life—said he “probably would” support the bill, citing his “enormous respect” for its Senate sponsor.

“Just about anything he does, I embrace,” Crist said of Fasano.