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.
