Questionnaire Issues Explained - #2

2. If elected, will you support measures to introduce and pass a law to protect every unborn child from the time of conception (fertilization) onward?

This question is not asking the candidate to support only to a law that would outlaw all abortions such as existed in Canada prior to 1969. Such a law would be very unlikely to pass let alone be introduced or receive a fair vote at this time. The question is really asking if the candidate opposes the killing of unborn human beings for any reason and would consistently act on that as an MP.

There are many other acceptable, so-called incremental measures, supported by a majority of Canadians, that could be introduced and passed into Canadian law if there were a sufficient number of pro-life leaning MPs elected to Parliament.

Examples of such measures are informed consent or “right-to-know”, mandatory waiting period, parental consent, de-funding abortion, an Unborn Victims of Violence Act, prohibiting government agencies from sending a pregnant woman to a foreign country for abortion, a ban on partial-birth abortions (it is unknown if this form of infanticide takes place in Canada) and mandatory reporting by abortionists of cases involving potential sexual abuse in under-age girls.