Candidate, Maurizio Bevilacqua
Vaughan Mayor - ON
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Here is Maurizio Bevilacqua's voting record relating to life and family issues:
| Votes, Surveys and Policy Decision | Vote | Score |
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| Bob Rae's pro-abortion Motion A Liberal Motion to expand abortion & contraception throughout Africa, at Canadian taxpayer expense. This was an attempt to co-opt a good Maternal & Child Health initiative of the Conservative government whose purpose was saving the lives of pregnant women and children by providing clean water, medicine and health-care workers assist with child birth. Bob Rae's abortion Motion was narrowly defeated 138 to 144. [Mar. 23, 2010] |
Yes |  |
| Motion to maintain the true definition of marriage Maintain definition as between one man and one woman [Sep 16, 2003] |
No | |
| Motion 12, Re-open debate on definition of marriage [Dec 2006] |
No | |
| C-38, A bill to abolish the true definition of marriage [June 28, 2005] |
Yes | |
| Bill C-33, added 'sexual orientation' to the Human Rights Act This bill was a major advance by the gay-lobby towards their hidden agenda of successfully challenging the traditional definition of marriage in court, and thereby, legitimizing their influence over the educational system. Their final goal was always to gain access to textbooks and school curriculum so they could re-write them as gay-positive, a coup-de-grace enabling them to indoctrinate future generations thus, imposing societal acceptance of homosexual acts. [1996] |
Yes | |
| C-13, Reproductive Technologies bill Allowed destruction of embryonic humans for research; as well as human cloning for the purpose of organ harvesting (Oct 28, 2003) |
Yes | |
| Motion 123, Favoured legalizing euthanasia & assisted Suicide [Mar 25, 1998] |
No |  |
| C-484, Unborn victims of Crime Act Common sense legislation that would allow criminal charges to be laid in the death or injury of an unborn child when the childs mother is the victim of violent crime. This cannot be considered a "pro-life" bill because it specifically excludes deliberate acts of abortion by the woman. Nonetheless, it is a good "pro-family" bill because it protects women and their wanted children from violent crime. (Mar5/08) |
No | |
| C-313, Age of Consent child protection bill Raised the age of consent for sex from 14 to 16 [Sep 28, 2005] |
No | |
| Section 93 Constitutional Amendment, revoked a guaranteed religious education right in Quebec [Nov. 18, 1997] |
Yes | |
| Motion 83, Inquiry into the medical necessity of abortion Asked parliament to examine whether abortion is medically necessary and to report on its potential health risks to women (Oct 1, 2003) |
No | |
| Bill C-384, Legalize euthanasia & assisted suicide A horrible bill that would have given doctors permission to kill people who are seriously ill but not dying and who in fact, have a treatable condition. Doctors would also have been permitted to kill people suffering with treatable chronic depression. This bill was defeated on second reading, 59 votes in favour to 228 votes Against. [Apr 21, 2010] |
No | |
Here are quotes from Maurizio Bevilacqua on various life and family issues:
On abortion, back in the days when he used to be pro-life: "Hon. members, everything I believe, everything that I hold dear, my social and cultural make-up, my personal beliefs as a human being, tells me that abortion is wrong. I feel within myself, passionately, that abortion is against the natural order. It negates the essence of our being." [Hansard transcript, Nov 27, 1989]
On the beginning of human life, prior to his big flip-flop from pro-life to pro-death: "I was very diappointed with the Government's proposed abortion legislation. The Bill fails to deal with the fundamental question: namely, when does human life begin? I believe that from the time of conception life begins and the fetus is a distinct human being. The government should withdraw this Bill, and produce real legislation to protect human life from the time of conception." [Letter to constituent, Dec.20, 1989]
Regarding abortion, before he flip-flopped from pro-life to pro-death: "I do not understand how any of us can accept giving the responsibility and the right to anyone to decide on who will live and who will not." [Hansard transcript, Nov. 27, 1989]
Here are the answers for the questionnaire as provided by Maurizio Bevilacqua on October 2010.
| Question | Response |
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| Organizations like Planned Parenthood (PP) routinely counsel women to have abortions. Given that abortion is a controversial practice that many taxpayers in your municipality find abhorrent, do you agree that PP and similar “sexual health agencies" should not receive taxpayer funds through the municipality? | no response |
| Do you acknowledge that human life begins at conception (fertilization)? | no response |
| Do you consider yourself pro-life or pro-choice? | no response |
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