TORONTO, May 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Saskatchewan Member of Parliament Cathay Wagantall introduced a bill to ban sex-selective abortion because the majority of Canadians are “absolutely against” the practice, she said in an interview during Thursday’s Virtual March for Life and Rally.
According to a poll in the National Post, “84 percent of Canadians said that this should be illegal,” Wagantall explained.
“So in the environment we’re in right now, where our country is so divided… this, I felt was an opportunity for us to work together across the whole nation on an issue that clearly the majority of Canadians agree with,” she said.
Wagantall was among many prominent pro-life guests and one of nine Conservative MPs who sent video greetings during an online rally on day four of last week’s virtual March for Life organized by Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), Canada’s national pro-life political lobbying group.
The March for Life is Canada’s largest annual pro-life event, but coronavirus pandemic restrictions compelled Campaign Life to move the 23rd annual March online.
The event marks May 14, 1969, the day Pierre Trudeau’s Liberal government passed an omnibus bill legalizing abortion under certain circumstances. The Supreme Court of Canada struck down that law in January 1988, leaving Canada with no legislation on abortion.
Most Canadians are “appalled” when they learn this is the case, Wagantall told Campaign Life Coalition’s Josie Luetke.
Canadians are also shocked to learn sex-selective abortion is happening in Canada.
“There’s been research done in the last three, four years specifically in this regard and the Canadian Medical Association has come out saying actually this is a growing problem in Canada and that it needs to be addressed,” she said.
Her Bill C-233, introduced February 26, will make it a crime for any physician to knowingly carry out an abortion solely because of the sex of the unborn baby.
Wagantall also introduced Cassie and Molly’s Law in 2016, which sought legal protection for unborn victims of crime, but it was voted down by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s then-majority government.
“The advantage I have with this bill is that, you know, our government touts that they are about equality, equality between men and women, boys and girls, and so that’s the premise of this,” Wagantall said.
“If you are truly about equality and not discrimination against young babies in the womb that are girls, then you have to support this, and Canadians are calling on us to support it.”
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