Saskatchewan MP’s pregnant women bill leads to controversy | 24CA News
A non-public members invoice from a Conservative Party MP out of Saskatchewan has sparked abortion debates in Ottawa.
Known as Bill C-311, the invoice would encourage judges to think about bodily or emotional hurt to a pregnant sufferer as an aggravating issue throughout sentencing.
Cathay Wagantall, the Conservative MP out of Yorkton-Melville, stated the violence towards pregnant girls act, which she authored, is solely targeted on defending pregnant girls.
“(The bill is) to ensure that the act of knowingly assaulting a pregnant woman and causing physical or emotional harm to a pregnant woman are considered aggravating circumstances during the sentencing process,” Wagantall stated.
But the Liberal Party and abortion rights teams really feel the invoice has an underlying motive, and nowhere within the invoice itself mentions abortion.
The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada is asking on MPs to vote it down.
“How people can get abortion restrictions in place is if a fetus is defined as a person, so that’s where we have issues with this bill,” stated Paige Mason with the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada.
The coalition additionally known as the invoice redundant, saying it’s not obligatory since judges have already got the discretion to use larger penalties for aggravating circumstances.
The Trudeau authorities holds an identical view.
“How frustrating it is to see that the Conservative Party fully supported by Pierre Poilievre is reopening the debate on abortion and going after a woman’s right to choose,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated.
“We are not a government that will trick people into places that would limit the access to women across our great country to get an abortion,” echoed Marcy Len, the minister for ladies and gender equality.
A spokesperson for Pierre Poilievre, chief of the Conservative Party, didn’t verify if he would vote in favour of the invoice.
The abortion debate was sparked within the lead as much as the payments second studying which was ultimately delayed.
“There is no reason for anyone in the House of Commons to not support this,” Wagantall stated.
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