article_snippet: Even though her unborn baby girl died, legal experts say the situation is complicated by the fact that Colorado is one of 12 states that do not have laws making the violent death of an unborn child a homicide.
article_snippet: Legal experts say a person can still be charged with homicide for an unborn child's death under existing Colorado law if the child was alive outside the mother's body and the act that led to an unborn child's death under existing Colorado law also occurred there.
article_snippet: After rejecting a fetal homicide law in 2013, Colorado legislators did pass a measure that makes it a felony to violently cause the death of a mother's fetus.
highlights_snippet: Colorado is one of 12 states that do not have laws making the violent death of an unborn child a homicide .
  