As politicians campaign for votes, a group of young Canadians is travelling the country attempting to build support for legal protections for children in the womb. And they are attracting support from Canadians across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n

With over twenty events from Halifax to Vancouver,\u00a0lifeTOUR<\/a>\u00a0seeks to ensure that Canada\u2019s leaders face the injustice committed against 100,000 Canadians every single year.<\/p>\n

Michelle Lemire, a pro-choice spokesperson for the Molly Matters campaign spoke at a press conference with LifeTOUR this morning in Ottawa. Her best friend, Cassandra Kaake, was seven months pregnant with her daughter Molly when she was brutally murdered in Windsor Ontario, last December.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOn December 11th, 2014 my life changed forever. I received a phone call informing me that my best friend of 26 years, Cassie Kaake, had died. I was paralyzed with emotion,\u201d said Ms. Lemire.<\/p>\n

\u201cWindsor and the surrounding area have been deeply affected by this tragedy. A permanent scar has been left on her place of work, community and her family and friends,\u201d continued Lemire.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time there have been calls for a pre-born victims of crime law. In 2007 Edmonton MP Ken Epp introduced Bill C-484. The bill was called the\u00a0Unborn Victims of Crime Act. Mr. Epp\u2019s bill passed Second Reading in Parliament but it failed to become law because an election was called in the fall of 2008.<\/p>\n

Lemire concluded her remarks by saying, \u201cAllow me to be very clear. Abortion is legal in Canada throughout the entire nine months of pregnancy for any reason. A pre-born victim\u2019s law does nothing to change this. A pre-born victim\u2019s bill modeled after Bill C-484 would not criminalize abortion and could not be interpreted as Parliament restricting a woman\u2019s right to choose to have an abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mike Schouten of WeNeedaLAW.ca also spoke at the press conference. \u201cCanada desperately needs a late-term abortion law which would prohibit abortion in the latter stages of pregnancy, and after the point in which the pre-born child can survive outside of the womb,” Schouten said.<\/p>\n

The issue of sex-selective abortion is also being raised at each lifeTOUR presentation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality that Canada is one of only a handful of countries that allows such violent discrimination against pre-born females \u2013 simply because they are girls \u2013 is deplorable,\u201d Schouten said. \u201cA new government needs to take immediate steps to address this serious injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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