Provincial Voting Records

Bio

CLC rating: Supportable

Rating Comments: Supportable rating is based on MLA Fitch's attendance at a March For Life event, which suggests strong support of the pro-life cause

Did not respond to questionnaire. CLC received the following email response from MLA Fitch in 2014: "Our position on reproductive rights has been clear and consistent as the five previous governments starting under Premier McKenna. The government of New Brunswick will meet the obligation and responsibility to provide access to medically necessary abortions in publicly funded healthcare facilities."

Position: Minister of Social Development (60th Legislature)

First elected (yyyy.mm.dd): 2003.06.09

Previous Occupation: Riverview city councillor, mayor

Percentage in last election: 60.1% (2020)

Victory margin last election: 43.7% (2020)

Religion / Faith: Baptist

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)

[email protected]

Constituency Offices

567 Coverdale Road, Unit 18A

Riverview, New Brunswick

E1B 3K7

Tel: (506) 869-6117

Fax: (506) 869-6114

[email protected]

Here is Bruce Fitch's voting record relating to life and family issues:

Votes, Surveys and Policy Decision	Vote	Score
March for Life Attendance	Attended 2014
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.	Opposes
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'.	Opposes
Bill 11, An Act Respecting Proof of Immunization Introduced by former provincial NDP leader turned PC Minister of Education, Domenic Cardy, this authoritarian bill would require all students to provide proof of immunization in order to attend any of the province’s early learning and childcare facilities or public schools and would not allow any conscientious or religious-based exemptions – only medical ones. That means, for example, that if parents object to certain vaccines on the basis of their unethical development or implications, those objections would be ignored. It would be a disastrous precedent given the bill’s failure to recognize the morally dubious nature of a great number of vaccines. Thankfully, even amidst the panic associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, this enforced-injection bill was wisely, if narrowly, defeated by a vote of 22 to 20 on June 18, 2020.	Supported

Here are quotes from Bruce Fitch on various life and family issues:

In response to CLC's 2014 questionnaire, Bruce repeated a canned party response that only addressed the PC commitment to deny public funding to Morgentaler's private abortuary, and to maintain the modicum of abortion restrictiions that are currently part of the provincial law:  "Our position on reproductive rights has been clear and consistent as the five previous governments starting under Premier McKenna. The government of New Brunswick will meet the obligation and responsibility to provide access to medically necessary abortions in publicly funded healthcare facilities." [Email to CLC, Sep. 15, 2014]

Here are the answers for the questionnaire as provided by Bruce Fitch on 2014.09.5.

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