ST. JOHN'S, NL, June 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A 29-year-old Newfoundland mother was days away from delivering her third child when she was brutally murdered by her boyfriend and the father of the baby, Warren White. Four neighbourhood kids recently made the gruesome discover of her dismembered body in a forest near an apartment the couple had moved into six months previous.
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Current Canadian law has no legislation regarding the unborn. Hence, White will escape unpunished for the murder of his child. So far White has been charged only with second-degree murder for the murder of his girlfriend and performing an indignity to a dead body.
If bill C-484 - which is currently making its way through Canadian parliament - were to be passed, however, White could be facing a life sentence for the murder of the baby in addition to a sentence for the murder of his girlfriend. The Unborn Victims of Violent Crime Bill recently passed second reading in the House of Commons, but is facing stiff opposition from pro-aborts who fear the bill is a step towards the re-criminalization of abortion.
Had the tragedy happened after the baby had seen daylight - there would have been no doubt even among the poor-choicers that Warren White must be charged with two counts of second-degree murder. But since the baby had yet to make his first breath - the pro-abort crowd insists that the baby and his mother were still "one body". Amanda Power and her baby each had its own beating heart. They had different DNA and perhaps - different blood types as well. The baby was moving on his own and he was just days away from breathing on his own - the pro-aborts don't care. They'll defy science, they'll trample on woman's right to give birth, they'll let a criminal get away with half of the punishment - just out of fear that more people may start questioning the morality of abortion. Does anyone still doubt that those people are pro-abortion, not "pro-choice"?
A representative for Women for Women's Health, which has represented the families of pregnant women who have been victims of violent crime, also condemned those opposing bill C-484, saying, "It appears to me that people opposing this legislation are bluntly twisting the truth and ignoring the fact that the proposed bill makes a point of stating that this does not apply to a woman's right to chose. It is either intellectual laziness or pure lies to propagate the notion that this will criminalize abortion."
Bill C-484 does not change the definition of a human being, nor does it take any choice or rights away from women. It empowers a woman's choice to reproduce and it sends a clear message that violence against pregnant women is wrong by addressing the very thing that defines a pregnancy – her fetus.
The bill attempts to empower a victim of violence by validating her choices and freedom, yet it appears that its critics are concerned with everyone whom it does not apply to.
Find a woman whose pregnancy has ended because of violence and ask her how she feels.
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