Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Canada's Unborn Victims of Crime Act

Margaret Somerville, the director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, reports on the escalating debate in Canada over Bill C-484, The Unborn Victims of Crime Act, which would make it a separate crime to injure or kill an unborn child in the course of committing a crime against a woman the accused knew to be pregnant. Common sense? Of course. Straightforward and just? Quite.

And yet, to no one's surprise, the pro-abortion cadre is vociferously opposing the bill. And they are not above using distortions, lies and looniness to try and get their way.