The vote on Motion 312 will be on June 12th and I am praying that SOMETHING changes, I am however doubtful after seeing and hearing Prime Minister Stephen Harper's reaction to this motion as he says that he will NOT support this and will actually do what he can to go AGAINST it! That just infuriates me and frustrates me! If we don't have the support of our Conservative, "Christian" Prime Minister to make a change when it comes to the abortion laws (or lack of abortion laws), then who can we count on??
Here is some information I read on Motion 312 that I found very helpful and insightful:
Section 223 is a Canadian definition of human being
which is at least 400 years old. Canada borrowed this law from British
common law, where it can be dated back to as early as 1642. Apart from a
declining number of US States, only three other countries in the world
now share Canada's refusal to recognize or protect the interests of
children as human beings until the moment of complete birth: China,
Vietnam, and North Korea.
Section 223 (1) states that "a child becomes a human
being when it has fully proceeded, in a living state, from the body of
its mother..." Therefore if a toe is still left in the birth
canal, that child is not considered a human being yet and therefore has
no human rights in Canada.
Courts have consistently said it is the government's
responsibility to decide when children before birth become human beings.
A law which denies that someone is a human being
without any relevant scientific evidence is not a just law. If any other
person were to be designated as sub-human (or simply not-human),
despite biological reality, there would be an outcry in favor of a just
and honest law respecting fundamental human rights.
The Canadian definition of human being should be
determined with current medical accurate evidence, not 400 years' old
17th Century medical science or law.
WHAT CAN WE DO?
We read these statistics and facts, we see the awful news stories of late-term abortions happening every day, sex-selection abortions killing off the female race (not just India and China but America!), botched abortions killing women and abortion clinics (and Planned Parenthood) doing everything in their power to lie to women to earn a dollar (or billions in their case)... and we think, "but what can I do?"
I know I feel helpless and useless, and I get depressed at the lack of options that I have to make a change but there ARE things we can do!
1. WRITE YOUR MP AND PRIME MINISTER:
It amazes me how many people say, "but I'm not political" when this option comes up. Not political? This IS a political problem, it's the politicians that are making these decisions for us, our women, our country, our tax dollars AND for these babies. So whether you know a lot about politics or not, you can pick up a pen or your laptop and write a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper or your own MP and let them know you are NOT okay with this barbaric 400 year old law making deadly choices for us!
Email: pm@pm.gc.ca
2. SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE HELPING WOMEN WHO CHOOSE LIFE!
We beg and plead and pray for women to choose to KEEP their babies...and then what? They have made that crucial decision (thank God) but they are still in the same place as they were before, often alone, abandoned, scared, lacking the funds and support needed to raise a baby and no where to turn. We need to give them our love and support!
A friend and I started to collect baby items from anywhere we could find them for free or for cheap and over the summer we will be putting together baby care packages for women in need, a way to say "congrats! You have a miracle coming!!" and to help them out a little bit.
Support Crisis Pregnancy Centers - they do exactly what we should be doing, loving and supporting women in their greatest time of need. These centers not only help moms that are choosing to keep and raise their babies, but also women who are choosing the greatest sacrifice of all - adoption, and also giving counseling, love, support and healing for women who have had an abortion.
3. TALK ABOUT IT!
Abortion is such a taboo topic for so many reasons, the first being that no one wants to offend anyone. "I wouldn't have an abortion but that's MY choice", "Everyone should be able to make their own decisions when it comes to their body", "I am pro-life except for...." These are fluffy ways of saying we don't want to get into a discussion about it and we don't want to REALLY have an opinion, but we NEED to. We need to say (in a kind and loving way) that abortion is wrong and there are many other options, we also need to tell the TRUTH about the risks, dangers and consequences of abortion.
Another reason we don't talk about it, it's too personal. 1 in 3 women in my generation will have HAD an abortion... that's scary. That means 1 in 3 MEN will have been affected by abortion and even MORE numbers of people when it comes to grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. We DO need to be careful HOW we talk about abortion, we don't know who has had one in the past, who has daughters, sisters, cousins, best friends or even mothers that have had one, but we DO know that it is affecting them and that is the reason the topic is so difficult to talk about. We need to talk about it in a loving, gentle way, NEVER judging and never condescending.
This blog is MY way of trying to talk about it. I have not had an abortion but I have lost a child through miscarriage and I HAVE been affected by abortion, chances are...we ALL have.
God so often used one small, "insignificant" voice in the Bible and from that one person made a MASSIVE change that affected the whole human race... imagine what we can do if we all come together a become a very BIG voice that cannot be ignored!!
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