Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Department of Justice Emails Description An account of the resource The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-mails in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. These e-mails have been organized here by date. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Friday, November 09, 2001 3:55 PM NRLC comment on victim compensation This comment is from the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC). We urge that in implementing the victim compensation provisions of Public Law 107-42, the Department of Justice explicitly recognize unborn children who were injured or killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks as eligible claimants. This would allow surviving family members to obtain recompense for the loss of these unborn children. As a matter of policy, this would be consistent with the position that President Bush took in endorsing the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, (HR 503), prior to passage of that bill by the House of Representatives on April 26. H.R. 503 would recognize any "child in utero" as a victim for purposes of CRIMINAL prosecution, if he or she is injured or killed during the commission of any one of numerous crimes under Title 18. See Statement of Administration Policy at www.whitehouse.gov/omb/legislative/sap/107-1/HR503-r.html. Please note especially the statement, "The Administration would strongly oppose any amendment to H.R. 503, such as a so-called 'One-Victim' Substitute, which would define the bill's crimes as having only one victim -- the pregnant woman." Enactment of H.R. 503 is necessary because of the specific constitutional requirements for successful criminal prosecutions, but no such issues arise with respect to the victim compensation provisions of Public Law 107-42. Under PL 107-42, it is clearly within administrative discretion to recognize that unborn children are "individual[s]," whose death represents a real loss to surviving family members. Further insight into the perspective of such family members can be gleaned by reviewing the moving testimony of Michael Lenz, who testified in 1999 before the House Judiciary subcommittee regarding the loss of his wife and unborn baby son in the Oklahoma City bombing. Mr. Lenz's testimony is posted at www.house.gov/judiciary/lenz0721.htm. Thank you for your consideration of NRLC's perspective on this matter. Sincerely, National Right to Life Committee Washington, DC September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-09 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource dojW000297.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2001-11-09