Pro-Life News Bytes - November 21

Bill C-484, the Unborn Victims Of Crime Act, has been introduced today. The bill would recognize unborn children as crime victims when they are injured or killed during the commission of an offense against their mothers.

"This is all about protecting the choice of a woman to give birth to her child," said Mr. Epp. "It is about condemning the actions of those who would take it upon themselves to criminally assault a pregnant woman and the child she wants and loves, destroying that child against her will."
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Such legislation is also supported across party lines: 77% of Conservative supporters, 71% of Liberal, 71% of the Bloc Quebecois, 67% of the Green Party, and 66% of the NDP supporters are in favour of "legislation making it a separate crime to injure or kill a foetus during an attack on the mother."

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I wonder if we could have this support mirrored in the Parliament for a change. So at the very least, the bill C-484 gets placed in the order of precedence and voted on, rather than becomes a "non-votable" item, just like the C-291 did.

Gwen Landoldt, the leader of the REAL Women of Canada commends Harper for keeping family issues front and centre in Ottawa. But suggests he shouldn't take the Social Conservative votes for granted.

Gwen Landoldt from REAL Women says there's a new political reality in Canada - that Conservative politicians can't get elected without support from the social conservative wing of their party. She says the recent Ontario provincial election proved it - the so-cons didn't like John Tory - a "Red Tory" - and they sat on their hands and refused to work for him or vote for him. She says Steven Harper is starting to understand that reality at a federal level as well, and that the federal Conservatives "cannot ever hope to be victorious in another federal election unless they have the social conservative backing."

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Let's see if Stephen Harper is really starting to understand that. The Unborn Victims Of Crime Act is the opportunity for him to show his stand on fetal rights. With the bill being supported even by the majority of those who want unrestricted abortions for the full nine months of pregnancy, there's no excuse for Harper not to support the bill. Unless of course he has an ideological preference for fetal dismemberment and destruction.

Slowly but steadily, people start to understand that unborn babies are humans. Suzanne gives us the example of a physician who's realized just that.

I never used to be pro-life. I was brainwashed by the far left media in this country while in college and I remember a pro-life rally once where I got into a shouting match with another student who was pro-life. But my views slowly changed. Then, one day while on call in residency, I was on obstetrics and I was called to see a patient who was 19 weeks pregnant and was in labor. I delivered the baby, it had a head, and fingers and toes and was still breathing. To knowingly suck out a baby and kill it (as abortions are done at 19 weeks) was beyond me.

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That's why pro-abortions won't agree to honest debate on the issue. They know they are powerless against facts.