Figures from Statistics Canada, a federal government agency, show 491
babies were born alive following botched abortions during the period
from 2000-2009 and left to die afterwards. The numbers have pro-life
advocates up in arms.
Andre Schutten, legal counsel for ARPA Canada, noticed the numbers and blogged about them recently.
The blog Run with Life has reported
that, from 2000 to 2009, 491 babies have been born alive following a
failed abortion procedure, and subsequently left to die. And those are
only the ones that are recordedby Statistics Canada.
The
blog explains that “there were 491 abortions, of 20 weeks gestation and
greater, that resulted in live births. This means that the aborted
child died after it was born. These abortions are coded as P96.4 or ‘Termination of pregnancy, affecting fetus and newborn’.”
The question that should immediately
present itself is, why has there not been 491 homicide investigations or
prosecutions in connection with these deaths? Section 223(2) of the Criminal Code (the accompanying subsection to the now infamous subsection that Mr. Woodworth’s motion 312 was examining) reads “A
person commits homicide when he causes injury to a child before or
during its birth as a result of which the child dies after becoming a
human being.” That is to say, anyone who interferes with a pregnancy
such that the child dies after it is born alive due to that
interference, is guilty of homicide.
So again, why have there been no
criminal prosecutions? Why no outcry? And why are the provinces funding
this explicitly criminal activity? Continue at Steven Ertelt
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