This Debate never died
Dear Editor:
Contrary to what humanists, secularists, leftists and the media would have us believe the majority of Canadians believe in the right to life of the unborn. A recent Environics poll commissioned
by LifeCanada showed that 72% of Canadians polled would support legislation making it a separate crime to injure or kill a fetus during an attack on the mother. Sparking the renewed debate has been the deaths of five pregnant women murdered in Canada in the past three years, the latest being Aysun Sesen, 25, of Toronto who died with her seven-month unborn child after being stabbed.
Currently under Canadian law the fetus is not recognized as a human being until born.
Almost three-quarters of Canadians want the law changed. Canadians have never been convinced the fetus is not a human being. We once had a Canadian law that said women were not “persons” and could not be appointed to the senate.
The law was wrong and was changed in October 1929.
Every year approximately 45 million unborn babies are killed by abortions worldwide which is almost as many casualties annually as the Second World War.
Since the “Roe versus Wade” ruling 40 million children have been aborted in the U.S. in the past three decades. About 2 million abortions have been performed in Canada since it was legalized.
The U.N. Declaration of the rights of the child (1959) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) provided protection for the unborn. Canadians take great pride in our Charter which is supposed to champion equality and rights for all. It is entirely inconsistent with “Canadian values” and inconceivable to me that unborn human beings could be deemed unworthy of basic human rights.
Gerald Hall
Nanoose Bay, B.C.
