MP wants law protecting unborn from crime:

[Rosalinda]

SASKATOON – The Edmonton man charged with murdering his wife ought to be facing double murder charges because she was pregnant, according to a Saskatoon member of Parliament who is calling for the law to be changed.

“A pregnant or recently pregnant woman is more likely to be a victim of homicide than to die of any other cause and that’s a very scary statistic,” said Saskatoon-Wanuskewin MP Maurice Vellacott, citing Canadian and American studies.

“This is about women. This is about children. At the point where women and their pre-born children are most vulnerable of all, we need to do something.”

Michael White was charged Monday with second-degree murder and offering indignity to the human remains of Liana White by leaving her body in a ditch. She was four-months pregnant with their second child. White does not face an additional murder charge in relation to their unborn child because under the Criminal Code of Canada, a baby is not considered a human being until birth…

 

[Rosalinda]

Vellacott, co-chairman of the parliamentary pro-life caucus, calls the law archaic and wants it changed. When Parliament resumes sitting in the fall, he plans to work with other pro-life members to draft a private member’s bill to protect unborn victims of violence.

Vellacott, a Conservative, expects a Liberal backbencher will introduce the bill in the House of Commons.

“Something like this would have such broad, I would think, cross-party support,” he said.

“We need to try to get the right bill and get it (worded) correctly so that people feel that it is doing what we want it to do and no more, but satisfy the pretty strong message in society about the sanctity of a pre-born child when a mother is choosing to carry the child and then someone viciously assaults them so that the life of the mother and child are taken.”

He said any bill would not affect women who choose to have abortions. Instead, it would make it illegal to hurt or kill unborn babies of women who want to be pregnant.

Vellacott points to legislation in the U.S. and in California, in particular, where unborn children are protected from abuse. But the head of Saskatoon’s Planned Parenthood is wary of Vellacott’s idea. “I understand the emotional impetus for that sort of law. My only concern is that it would be the beginning of a slippery slope and that it had potential to lead us down a path that would reduce a woman’s right to choose,” said Evelyn Reisner, executive director of Planned Parenthood Saskatoon Centre.

In Reisner’s mind, the issue isn’t black and white. Even though Vellacott is adamant the bill would not include abortions, Reisner wonders how long it would take before someone tried to define abortion as a violent act, leading those who perform them to be charged with murder.

 

[Rosalinda]

Anyone wishing to support the proposal of the Canadian member of parliament Maurice Vellacott may contact him at

vellacott.mp@shawlink.ca

Maurice Vellacott, M.P.
Unit 3-844 51st.Street East
Saskatoon, SK
Canada, S7K 5C7
toll free telephone: 888-844-8886

I have already received a response from my email thanking me for my encouraging words and expressing his deep conviction that truth will ultimately win out.

As the aforementionned post pointed out Planned Parenthood is prepared to fight this tooth and nails so we must act now.

 

[HitF12]

thanks for bringing this to our attention.

 

[antiaphrodite]

good news!!!