The\u00a0Missing Project<\/a>\u00a0documentary is a 70-minute film that documents what is missing in our nation because of fifty years of legal abortion.\u00a0Missing laws.\u00a0Missing people.\u00a0Missing information. Missing voices.<\/p>\n Filmmaker and producer Ryan Stockert gathered stories from lawyers, politicians, medical professionals, post-abortive women and men, adopted children, foster families, advocates, and many others in the pro-life movement. Stockert was indifferent to the abortion debate prior to taking on this project, and therefore is well suited to provide a unique perspective on fifty years of history as it relates to women\u2019s rights and fetal rights. \u201cWe called the documentary \u2018The Missing Project\u2019 because so much of the abortion discussion is now missing from public spaces,\u201d said Stockert. \u201cI always thought abortion is a private discussion and so no one else should be involved. But as I\u2019ve talked to Canadians across the country, it\u2019s clear the stories of Canadians affected by abortion need to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n The film includes a powerful segment on Bill C-43, an abortion bill introduced by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in 1990. That bill was the last that any government has tried to pass. Former assistant to then-Member of Parliament Benno Friesen shares how the pro-life movement bears much of the responsibility for the defeat of that bill and of where we are today \u2013 the only country in the world without an abortion law.<\/p>\n The release of The Missing Project falls on the eve of the 2019 Federal Election. Prime Minister Trudeau has spent much of the past four years convincing Canadians he is a feminist, and a big part of that is sharing his obsession with abortion, both in Canada and developing countries. Trudeau\u2019s fixation on abortion is sure to carry over into the upcoming election as he attempts to scare Canadians into thinking that Andrew Scheer has a hidden agenda of taking away a women\u2019s so-called \u201cright to choose.\u201d<\/p>\n For his part, the Conservative leader consistently divorces himself from his Catholic faith by promising Canadians that they can have \u201cabsolute confidence\u201d<\/a> he will never reopen the abortion debate. This in turn has given the leader of the People\u2019s Party of Canada, Maxime Bernier, opportunity to garner support from social conservatives. This is manifested in his support for outspoken pro-lifer Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson to run as his first candidate in a byelection earlier this spring. Bernier also made an indirect appeal to this same voting block when he issued a series of tweets calling for sensible abortion regulations.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot-58.png\")
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