MLA Rene Legacy
Liberal Party, Bathurst West-Beresford, NB
Bio
CLC rating: Pro-abortion, anti-parental rights
Rating Comments: The New Brunswick Liberal Party is officially pro-abortion and anti-parental rights. At the 2024 New Brunswick Liberal Party Convention, resolutions were passed to extend public funding to abortions committed outside hospitals at private, for-profit killing centres. Convention delegates also voted to eviscerate the current PC government's pro-parental rights Policy 713, which requires parental consent before transgender "pronouns" can be used to describe their children at school.
As further testament to the party's pro-abortion views, both of the previous Liberal Party leaders, Brian Gallant and Kevin Vickers, were aggressively pro-abortion. Gallant banned pro-lifers from running as Liberal candidates and repealed a requirement that hospital abortions required a sign-off by two doctors that the killing of the unborn child was "medically necessary". Both Gallant and Vickers strongly supported taxpayer funding of for profit, private abortuaries.
As further testament to the party's pro-abortion views, both of the previous Liberal Party leaders, Brian Gallant and Kevin Vickers, were aggressively pro-abortion. Gallant banned pro-lifers from running as Liberal candidates and repealed a requirement that hospital abortions required a sign-off by two doctors that the killing of the unborn child was "medically necessary". Both Gallant and Vickers strongly supported taxpayer funding of for profit, private abortuaries.
First elected (yyyy.mm.dd): 2020.09.14
Percentage in last election: 55.8% (2020)
Victory margin last election: 26.1% (2020)
Religion / Faith: unknown
Contact
Parliamentary Office
Legislative Building, Centre Block
P. O. Box 6000
Fredericton, New Brunswick
E3B 5H1
Tel: (506) 453-2506 (general info.)
Fax: (506) 453-7154 (general fax)
Constituency Offices
103A-1935 St Peter Avenue
Bathurst, New Brunswick
E2A 7J5
Tel: (506) 549-5329
Here is Rene Legacy's voting record relating to life and family issues:
| Votes, Surveys and Policy Decision | Vote | Score |
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| Position on diverting taxpayer $$ towards paying for abortions at Morgentaler's private "clinic" In 2014, the Liberal Party Leader in NB came out against the long-standing ban on public funding for private abortion facilities. For decades, all 3 major parties have agreed that the province shall not fund abortions at private abortion 'clinics'. Only abortions committed at hospitals are publicly funded. After an organized campaign to fund the Morgentaler abortuary, the Liberal Leader came out strongly in favour of fully-funded, abortion-on-demand. |
Unknown, but likely supports | -- |
| Position on cancelling the provincial requirement that 2 doctors sign off on the abortion as 'medically necessary' before it gets funded by taxpayers. This is the current, decades old policy of the New Brunswick government. It was agreed upon by all major parties until 2014 when the Liberal Leader suggested this modicum of restriction needs to be removed, in the name of 'a woman's right to choose'. |
Unknown, but likely supports | -- |
There are no quotes for Rene Legacy at this time.
Here are the answers for the questionnaire as provided by Rene Legacy on 2020.
| Question | Response |
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| Do you acknowledge that human life begins at conception (fertilization)? | survey not sent |
| Are there any circumstances under which you believe a woman should have access to abortion? (note: a surgical or medical intervention, designed to prevent the death of the mother but but which results in the unintended and undesired death of the pre-born child, is not an abortion. e.g. in cases of tubal pregnancy or cervical cancer) | survey not sent |
| Will you uphold the current law of not funding abortion in private facilities? | survey not sent |
| Will you support measures to stop funding abortions with taxpayers money in all New Brunswick hospitals? | survey not sent |
| Do you agree women have the right to be thoroughly informed about the serious health consequences of abortion, the development of the child in the womb and the alternatives to abortion? | survey not sent |
| Will you protect the rights of parents to educate their children according to their faith in matters of moral principles and beliefs concerning abortion, contraception and homosexuality? | survey not sent |
| Will you oppose euthanasia and instead support measures to promote 'palliative care', the purpose of which is to alleviate pain, and enhance the quality of life for terminally ill patients and those with disabilities? (Note: Euthanasia is the direct and intentional killing of a person by action or omission, with or without that person's consent, for what people mistakenly believe are compassionate reasons.) | survey not sent |
| Will you support legislation to protect the right of health care workers who refuse to participate in procedures which are in violation of their religious or conscientious beliefs? | survey not sent |
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