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The case of an Edmonton man accused of murdering his pregnant wife has ignited a debate over whether Canada should make it a crime to kill unborn children.
Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott will pursue a private member’s bill to include a Criminal Code charge for murdering a wanted fetus, similar to a law enacted in the U.S. last year after California’s high-profile Scott Peterson case.
His push for legal reform comes in the wake of the case of Michael White, who was charged with murdering his pregnant wife Liana.
Vellacott thinks White should be charged with double homicide, but under Canadian law there is no charge for killing an unborn child.
“The bizarre thing about the situation in Canada is that you can have a greater sanction against someone who has created some cruelty on an animal,” he said. “You kill a cat and it’s punishable, but as it stands now, a mother can be killed all the way up to nine months’ pregnancy, and short of that baby coming out the birth canal, there is no punishment.”
[…] But the National Action Committee on the Status of Women accused social conservatives like Vellacott of exploiting the tragedy of White’s death to “deceptively” re-open the debate on abortion rights through the back door. The focus of public discussion should be on curbing violence against women, said NAC vice-president Kripa Sekhar.
The militantly left-wing radical pro-abortion and anti-family National Action Committee on the Status of Women is federally funded. Read this excellent short article about them.
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