Father Raymond J. de Souza: It's time to break the law's silence

Canada’s permissive abortion regime should not prevent laws that address crimes against pregnant women.

On Tuesday, a 17-year-old man was sentenced to six years in prison and four years probation for killing Roxanne Fernando in Winnipeg last February. It is the maximum possible youth sentence for murder.

Roxanne was pregnant at the time of her killing. Indeed, she was murdered because she chose to remain pregnant. The Winnipeg court was told that she was killed because she refused to have an abortion. It is not clear whether her killer was the baby’s father, or acting on behalf of someone else. There are two other men still to face trial.
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Canada does not have any law that makes it crime to injure or kill the child during an attack on the mother.

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It's interesting to check out the pro-abortionists' counter-arguments.

They suggest that we forget about fetal rights and address domestic violence instead. As if breaking a woman's leg and killing her unborn baby were crimes of the same magnitude. They mention right to reproductive choice, but overlook the rights of those women who want to keep their babies, but end up losing them without their consent. And then the abort-mongers say it loud and clear - recognizing unborn babies as persons will take away the easy access to abortions - which they believe is their right...

It's interesting to look at the examples the pro-abortionists give - such as a story of a teenager who helped his girlfriend to end her five-month pregnancy of twins. (How about just giving them out for adoption?) The pro-abortionists blame Texas law that doesn't allow aborting babies after 16 weeks (pictured). They say it's because of that law the young girl had to resort to her boyfriend's help. (As if it could make her "unpregnant", rather than a mother of dead twins.) And they call the boyfriend's imprisonment a "grave injustice"...

Well, if the pro-abortionists believe that violence against the unborn shouldn't be a criminal offense - they shouldn't be surprised when some people don't see anything wrong with assaulting those who've already been born and grown up. The first step towards ending domestic violence is extending legal protection to every life, from conception to natural death.