It's A Cult

 Tell me that it's not.

The well-attended annual March for Life in Ottawa has come and gone, much to the relief of the state-run CBC that no longer has to ignore it until next year.

Also ignored, the very obvious pain abortion causes.

What other medical procedures are washed away with pills and vodka?

None that I can think of.

Now the new bug-bear that terrifies pro-abortionists and will undoubtedly be used by the flailing Liberals as weapon against Pierre Poilievre is  Bill C-311.

Thusly explained:

Bill C-311 – a private member’s bill introduced earlier this year by Saskatchewan MP Cathay Wagantall – proposes to toughen criminal sentences for assaults against pregnant women.

Dubbed the Violence Against Pregnant Women Act, it would add two lines to the Criminal Code which would make pregnancy an aggravating circumstance in a case of assault.

Specifically, if an assault is committed against a victim “whom the offender knew to be pregnant,” Bill C-311 rules that it should be upgraded to a charge of aggravated assault.

 

It sounds reasonable. 

Canada has incredibly lax laws against violent crime.

Why not pass stronger laws against that which should be an outrage?

Because the people who refuse to even touch abortion but are content with Canada's legal status quo - the one where abortion is neither legal nor illegal - are horrified that somewhere in the electorate the gender reveal crowds might decide that now is the time to put one's foot down instead of vacillating between emotional retardation and fear of what the mob might say:

In fact the Criminal Code already offers such redress, only in very specific circumstances. Section 238(1) protects fetuses at the moment of birth: “Everyone who causes the death, in the act of birth, of any child that has not become a human being, in such a manner that, if the child were a human being, he would be guilty of murder, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life.”

And section 223(2) protects fetuses in utero, so long as they make it out: “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.”

In 1981 in Manitoba, Sandra Prince was convicted of causing bodily harm to Bernice Williams, whom she had stabbed in the stomach. Williams was six months pregnant, and gave birth to a baby boy just a few days later. He lived for only 19 minutes. An autopsy determined the stabbing had precipitated the unsurvivable premature delivery. As such, Prince was later convicted of the baby’s manslaughter — but only because the baby had been born alive. Had the stabbing ended his life in utero, he would never have “become a human being.”

Surely that doesn’t make any sense on any level. Surely the uncontroversial existence of these laws demonstrates that we pretty much all believe the fetus should have some protections against assault or homicide. Surely none of us believes, on a moral level, that those protections should hinge on whether the fetus in question manages to stagger out of the womb alive, even if only for a few minutes. Surely this is something a grown-up country should be able to discuss in good faith.

 

What will the major parties be prepared to own in this particular debate? That pregnant women CAN be victims of crime up until a point because no wants an actual law or restrictions or even a discussion?

Oh, dear ...

 

Also:

Ten years ago today, abortionist Kermit Gosnell was convicted by a Philadelphia jury for performing illegal late-term abortions and murdering three babies born alive by snipping their spines with scissors. Investigators believe he killed hundreds if not thousands of babies in a 30-year killing spree.

The Gosnell court case became a media sensation for a while because the world’s media refused to cover it. Journalists and their outlets were accused on social media of not wanting to cover negative abortion stories. Eventually, they were shamed into covering the trial.

These days there seems to be no such reticence about covering abortion, or rather, in covering certain abortion stories. 

 

But not grotesque ones.