Failing To Recognize The Second Victim

Ken Epp responds to government's decision to replace the Unborn Victims Of Crime Act with a go-nowhere alternative:

By simply treating pregnancy as an aggravating factor without recognizing a second victim in the crime, we reinforce the offensive notion that the unborn child’s fate is irrelevant. But the child’s death is very relevant to the mother (and other family members) who want her baby to live. As Mary Talbot, mother of Olivia Talbot and grandmother of Lane Jr. told the media, ‘It’s two people who died that day…I certainly put two people in a coffin.’

Does the Minister now tell Mary that, during the violent attack on Olivia and Lane Jr., her grandson was just an ‘aggravating factor’? That the brutal attack didn’t really lead to the death of Olivia’s not-yet-born but very much wanted baby boy? Lane Jr. was deliberately killed that day. At the trial, Olivia’s murderer told the court he shot Olivia in the abdomen ‘to get the baby.’

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Is it the end of the road for the Unborn Victims Of Crime Act? It is - for the actual bill. If it doesn't die on the order paper once the election is called, it will most likely be dropped from the order of precedence or otherwise stalled for the remainder of the Parliamentary session. But once the next Parliament reconvenes (whenever that happens) - the Unborn Victims Of Crime Act could be reintroduced again. All we need is to elect more pro-life MPs to the next Parliament.