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Sex-selective Abortion<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

\n CONSERVATIVE<\/p>\n<\/td>\n	\n LIBERAL<\/p>\n<\/td>\n	\n GREEN<\/p>\n<\/td>\n	\n NDP<\/p>\n<\/td>\n	\n CHP<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Passed resolution condemning gendercide at 2013 convention.<\/p>\n “I think we need to work closely with women’s groups and ensure that people understand that girls and boys are equal under the law, we don’t tolerate discrimination against girls and women.”(Rona Ambrose)[1]<\/a><\/td>\n	Understand sex-selective abortion to be a \u2018right\u2019;<\/p>\n When asked specifically if he would advise a woman against gender selective abortion Mr. Trudeau said, \u201cI don’t think the government should be in the business of legislating away people’s rights.\u201d[2]<\/a><\/td>\n	Not in favour of regulations.<\/p>\n Rely on \u201cpublic education and awareness to bring an end to gender discriminatory abortions.\u201d (Elizabeth May)<\/td>\n	NDP MP and health critic Libby Davies\u00a0 and MP Niki Ashton, the NDP’s status of women critic, said in a statement that sex selective abortion “has no place in our society.” They are calling for “education and support in order to combat that inequality.”[3]<\/a><\/td>\n	\u201cOur society recognizes the equality and dignity of both sexes. Canadians who have been born are protected by the Charter from discrimination based on gender. The killing of an unborn child based on gender preference is not only ageist but also sexist.\u201d (Rod Taylor, CHP leader)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Questions associated with sex-selective abortion<\/strong><\/p>\n \n In Canada, killing a baby girl in the womb, simply because she’s a girl, is legal. In fact, a CBC investigation revealed this happens with disturbing regularity in this country. As an elected representative of this riding, what would you do to stop this practice?<\/li>\n Do you think it\u2019s right for someone to have an abortion based on gender? (If not\u2026) What are you going to do to end sex-selective abortion?<\/li>\n Examples for Twitter:\n \n Hi @________. Curious, are you okay with abortion when it is only based on gender? #lifetour #elxn42<\/li>\n Hi @________. Do you support women\u2019s rights for women of all ages? #defendgirls #lifetour #elxn42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n \n Late-Term Abortion<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n CONSERVATIVE<\/p>\n<\/td>\n \n LIBERAL<\/p>\n<\/td>\n \n GREEN<\/p>\n<\/td>\n \n NDP<\/p>\n<\/td>\n \n CHP<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n If you want to diminish the number of abortions, you\u2019ve got to change hearts and not laws. And I\u2019m not interested in having a debate over abortion law.” (Prime Minister Harper)[4]<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cA Conservative Government will not support any legislation to regulate abortion.\u201d (Conservative Party Policy Declaration as amended by the delegates to the National Convention on November 2, 2013)[5]<\/a><\/td>\n Steadfastly maintain that a woman\u2019s right to choose abortion on demand for any reason is a Charter right.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Liberal Party is the party of the Charter and we stand up and defend personal rights.\u201d (Liberal leader Justin Trudeau)[6]<\/a><\/td>\n \u201cThe Green Party opposes any possible move to diminish the right of a woman to a safe, legal abortion. We fully support a woman\u2019s right to choose.\u201d (Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party)[7]<\/a><\/td>\n Introduced a motion calling on the House of Commons to affirm that “a woman’s right to choose abortion is a fundamental question of equality and human rights, both in Canada and around the world.”[8]<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not debatable, it\u2019s not negotiable.\u201d (NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair)[9]<\/a><\/td>\n \u201cThe CHP opposes the termination of innocent human life at any stage. The killing of a child in the womb after he or she has fingerprints, a heart-beat, brain waves, and is able to feel pain or even after he or she would be viable outside the womb is unconscionable.\u201d (CHP Leader Rod Taylor)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n Questions associated with late-term abortion<\/strong><\/p>\n \n Canada, along with North Korea and China, is one of only three countries with no protections for children in the womb at any stage of pregnancy. Do you support laws protecting pre-born children after 11 weeks gestation? 18 weeks? 24 weeks?<\/li>\n On multiple occasions the courts in Canada have appealed to Parliament to enact abortion laws. This was most notable in the 1988 Morgentaler decision where the entire court recognized that fetal rights need protection at some point. Would you support a Parliamentary debate on when a child in the womb should have his or her rights protected?<\/li>\n Do you think the government should fund abortions when a baby would be viable outside the womb?<\/li>\n Examples for Twitter:\n \n I think dismembering human beings is wrong. What do you think @______? #lifetour #elxn42<\/li>\n Discrimination based on age and size has no place in Canada. Do you support a late-term #abortion law? @_________ #elxn42 #lifetour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n \n Pre-born Victims of Crime<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n CONSERVATIVE<\/p>\n<\/td>\n \n LIBERAL<\/p>\n<\/td>\n \n GREEN<\/p>\n<\/td>\n \n NDP<\/p>\n<\/td>\n \n CHP<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n The Conservative Party supports legislation to ensure that individuals who commit violence against a pregnant woman would face additional charges if her unborn child was killed or injured during the commission of a crime against the mother. [10]<\/a><\/td>\n The Liberal Party position is unclear.<\/p>\n In 2008 they opposed Bill C-484, the Unborn Victims of Crime Act by saying, \u201cWe need to protect everyone against crime but, at the same time, it happens that I believe in the rights of women to choose.\u201d[11]<\/a><\/td>\n Position unknown.<\/td>\n Would not support a law that recognized the child in the womb as a victim.<\/p>\n Statements made by Windsor area MP Brian Masse indicate the NDP would only support stiffer sentencing.[12]<\/a><\/td>\n \u201cAll Canadians deserve the protection of the law against assault. When a preborn child and his or her mother are physically assaulted and death or damage occurs, that child, as well as his or her mother, deserve the protection of the law.\u201d (CHP leader Rod Taylor)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \u00a0Questions associated with pre-born victims of crime<\/strong><\/p>\n \n Last Christmas, Cassandra Kaake (pronounced Cake) and her daughter Molly were murdered in what appears to be a vicious home invasion. The attacker even set the house on fire when he left. Police have charged a man, but only with one count of murder. Molly was 30 weeks old, but still inside her mother. She had a room painted for her, grandparents and aunts and uncles eagerly awaiting her arrival. But the law refuses to recognize that Molly even existed. As an elected representative, would you support an unborn victims of crime law?<\/li>\n Do you think the killer of a pregnant woman should have a harsher sentence than the killer of someone who isn\u2019t pregnant?<\/li>\n Examples for Twitter:\n \n Hi @_______. If elected will you work to protect the choice to keep a pregnancy to term? #prebornvictimsofcrime #lifetour #elxn42 #mollymatters<\/li>\n When a pregnant woman is murdered should the perpetrator be charged for both deaths? @_________ #elxn42 #lifetour #mollymatters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n \n Freedom of Conscience<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n CONSERVATIVE<\/p>\n<\/td>\n \n LIBERAL<\/p>\n<\/td>\n \n GREEN<\/p>\n<\/td>\n \n NDP<\/p>\n<\/td>\n \n CHP<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \u201cIn public life there are issues that engage peoples\u2019 moral views, engage their faith, engage their most deeply held beliefs. And it\u2019s our party\u2019s view that on those issues you cannot impose views on people.\u201d (Prime Minister Stephen Harper) [13]<\/a><\/td>\n \u201cAll Liberal MPs, regardless of their personal views, would be expected to vote pro-choice.\u201d (Justin Trudeau) [14]<\/a><\/td>\n The Green Party “around the world” never whips votes and she doesn’t, under her [Elizabeth May] party’s rules, have the power to unilaterally reject a nomination candidate who holds anti-abortion views. [15]<\/a><\/td>\n \u201cIn the NDP, no MP is ever going to vote against the woman\u2019s right to choose. No one will be allowed to run for the NDP if they don\u2019t believe that it is a right in our society for women to make their own choices on their reproductive health. Period.\u201d (Thomas Mulcair)[16]<\/a><\/td>\n “The CHP encourages all MPs to vote according to the dictates of conscience on bills or motions that affect the protection of children in the womb. All CHP candidates have pledged to defend innocent human life from conception until natural death”. (CHP Leader Rod Taylor)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n \n [1]<\/a> http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ban-on-entertainment-ultrasounds-urged-1.1242522<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n [2]<\/a> http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2014\/05\/23\/trudeau-keeps-it-simple<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n [3]<\/a> http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ban-on-entertainment-ultrasounds-urged-1.1242522<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n [4]<\/a> http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/death-penalty-not-on-agenda-pm-1.1029918<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n [5]<\/a> http:\/\/www.conservative.ca\/media\/documents\/Policy-Declaration-Feb-2014.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n [6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/trudeau-says-he-wont-compromise-liberal-partys-position-on-abortion\/article18790285\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n [7]<\/a> http:\/\/elizabethmaymp.ca\/news\/publications\/press-releases\/2012\/09\/25\/conservative-mps-attempt-to-re-open-the-abortion-debate-is-disturbing\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n [8]<\/a> http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/ndp-could-trigger-house-debate-on-abortion-later-this-week-1.2640973<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n [9]<\/a> http:\/\/ipolitics.ca\/2014\/05\/08\/ndp-asks-government-whip-to-rein-in-vellacotts-anti-abortion-spam-emails-from-tory-mp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n [10]<\/a> http:\/\/www.ottawacentreconservative.ca\/m_criminal_justice<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n [11]<\/a> http:\/\/www.canada.com\/topics\/news\/story.html?id=8e912bf8-ebc5-4f89-8fc5-b92874b5b334<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n [12]<\/a> http:\/\/blogs.windsorstar.com\/news\/brutal-murder-of-pregnant-woman-prompts-calls-for-changes-to-the-law<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n [13]<\/a> http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/canadian-politics\/stephen-harper-takes-jab-at-trudeaus-abortion-policy-says-tories-wont-impose-views-on-people<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n [14]<\/a> http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/justin-trudeau-clarifies-abortion-stance-for-liberal-mps-1.2679783<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n [15]<\/a> http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/justin-trudeau-s-abortion-stance-leaves-liberal-ranks-in-confusion-1.2648752<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n [16]<\/a> http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/politics\/no-anti-abortion-candidates-allowed-to-run-for-ndp-mulcair-1.1812400<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The introduction of abortion legislation is one promise the major political parties will not be making in the lead up to the October 19th\u00a0election. 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