Canada continues to allow born alive aborted babies to die because too many people just don't care

Speaking of Canada's shameful practice of allowing aborted babies to die after being born, I did an ATIP to the RCMP regarding this story, that you may remember:

"On January 23, 2013, three Conservative MPs (Maurice Vellacott – Saskatoon-Wanuskewin, Wladyslaw Lizon – Mississauga-Cooksville, and Leon Benoit – Vegreville-Wainwright) wrote a letter to RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson calling for a criminal investigation into the deaths of 491 babies born alive after abortions but left to die. The deaths occurred between 2000 and 2009. Vellacott wrote a letter of clarification after the initial erroneous media coverage, saying “contrary to what some of the media have been reporting, my colleagues, Leon Benoit and Wladyslaw Lizon, and I did not ask the RCMP to investigate any/all abortions after 19 weeks as possible homicides.?? He explained, “our request to the RCMP was not about the deaths of preborn children, but rather the deaths of children who had already been born alive and who are, therefore, recognized as ‘human beings’ in Canadian law.??"

This is what I asked for:

"I would like to see all documentation (emails, letters, briefing notes, etc.) related to this request to the RCMP; that is, to and from the MPs and the RCMP. Also all documentation to and from the RCMP and any other government organization including the PMO, regarding this MP request for an investigation of possible homicides to the RCMP."

This is what I received back. Other than Maurice Vellacott's own letters, there are only two letters from Commissioner Bob Paulson to Mr. Vellacott. No other documentation of any kind to show that the commissioner did anything with the complaint.

A couple of points to note:

First, the Commissioner never acknowledged Mr. Vellacott's letter because he thought the "RCMP's public acknowledgement...was sufficient to confirm reception". Perhaps an actual response letter to Mr. Vellacott would have been in order? It's called common courtesy.

Second, the Commissioner summarily dismissed Mr. Vellacott's complaint of possible criminal behaviour regarding these born alive abortions. Without any reason, and without any investigation on the very serious allegations. Even when Mr. Vellacott details the pertinent criminal code section, which at the very least should give someone pause:

223 (1) A child becomes a human being within the meaning of this Act when it has completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother, whether or not

• (a) it has breathed;

• (b) it has an independent circulation; or

• (c) the navel string is severed.

Marginal note:Killing child

(2) A person commits homicide when he causes injury to a child before or during its birth as a result of which the child dies after becoming a human being.

Third, the second letter from the Commissioner. In this one, his disdain for these allegations is clear:

"The Statistics Canada figures you reference in your correspondence purportedly represent occurrences recorded in regulated medical facilities involving medical practitioners, who must abide by their professional obligations..."

Fourth, the commissioner's using the word purportedly shows that he didn't even bother to reach out to Stats Canada. Otherwise he would have learned that yes indeed, these are late term abortions where a child dies after it is born. It is not purportedly at all. Does he not trust Stats Canada?

Fifth, just because these abortions happen in regulated facilities, does that mean that we don't investigate possible occurrences of criminal behaviours? Think of Kermit Gosnell, the master of botched abortions.

Sixth, "Your assertion that some, any or all of these occurrences constitute a crime requires an untenable contortion of the Criminal Code..." How could it be an untenable contortion if you didn't investigate? The Commissioner's pro-abortion bias just oozes out from his choice of language.

Seventh, it is bizarre that Mr. Paulson was provided with both the data of the possible crimes and the Criminal Code citation, and then evasively indicates that the public is supposed to do his investigation for him.

Of course, we all know there is one set of rules for pro-life people, and one set of rules for pro-abortion people. Commissioner Paulson, on his own, without any investigation whatsoever into these very serious allegations, decided they had no merit.

Some might think this is all water under the bridge now because this happened ten years ago. But it isn't. These helpless little infants continue to be born alive after an abortion, and continue to die. And because of Canada's unrelenting pro-abortion ideology, we will continue to do nothing to stop it.

Canada has 22 more late-term born-alive abortions than last year

Last year there were 127 live-birth abortions. This year there were 149. That's an increase of 22 babies born alive after a late term abortion.

Six of these babies were greater than 29 weeks gestation.

There were also 911 late-term stillbirth abortions (Greater than 20 weeks gestation).

These numbers exclude Quebec born alive abortions. I'm not sure if I noticed this before.

"Table 1: Number of stillbirths resulting from termination of pregnancy...excluding Quebec"

"Table 2: Number of livebirths (with gestational age => 20 weeks) resulting from termination of pregnancy in acute inpatient settings in Canada (excluding Quebec), by province, 2021-2022"

"Table 3: Number of livebirths (with gestational age => 20 weeks) resulting from termination of pregnancy in acute inpatient settings in Canada (excluding Quebec), by gestational age (in weeks), 2021-2022"

Instead, let's invest in living with dignity

I submitted a second ATIP to Health Canada for Dying with Dignity, to continue where the first one left off:

"Agendas, meeting notes, briefing materials, and calendar entries related to meetings between Canadian not-for-profit "Dying with Dignity Canada" [DWDC] and Health Canada officials between March 2020 and the present day."

I received the following information in an undated memo to the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Carolyn Bennett regarding a meeting with DWDC:

1) We learn that Dying with Dignity also met previously in December, with the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion, Carla Qualtrough. This means that DWDC had at least two meetings with two different Ministers about euthanasia.

2) DWDC has a Letter writing campaign. On DWDC's website they encourage people to write to their MP to move:

"swiftly with the legalization of advance requests, so that those who wish to can make a request for MAID while they still have the capacity and autonomy to do so. We can’t lose momentum now." [good grief get a move on, we need to kill more Canadians.]

3) DWDC wants further expansion of advance requests for MAID.

4) DWDC wants to do better data collecting to determine whether there are any "inequalities or disadvantages based on race, Indigenous identity and disability". In other words, are we killing enough people based on race, Indigenous identity and disability?

5) DWDC wants to develop training for practitioners to be responsive to the needs of underserved and marginalized communities. So do they also want to kill more people from these communities? 

6) Next we have something called POINTS TO REGISTER. I'm not sure, but I think this is talking points for the Minister when she meets with DWDC. This is jaw dropping:

"I appreciate all the work you do to educate the public on end-of-life issues and support patients who are exploring MAID as an option. Than you for the thoughtful advice you have provided the government during the legislative consultations, committee reviews of the former BIll C-7 and the regulatory consultations, based on your experiences working with practitioners, patients and their families."

The Minister is thanking DWDC for their input in advocating for the killing of Canadians, all the while why DWDC receives government funding to advocate for killing Canadians. Which brings me to my next point.

7) Heath Canada is investing more money in MAID, to train doctors to kill people. 

How about instead we invest that money in palliative care?

8) DWDC wants to remove the RFND (reasonably foreseeable natural death) clause. In other words, further relax any safeguards that are left to protect people.

9) Health Canada has an end-of-life care unit. 18 people work here. An entire section devoted to working on euthanasia. I am not kidding. Once again, why don't we invest these 18 salaries into palliative care? If we use an average salary of $80,000 (and this figure is probably low), that would be $1,440,000/year we could put towards palliative care.

Part 2 - CIHI 2021 abortion data - still under-reported

Further to this post, it seems that CIHI is still under-reporting abortion stats, at least for Ontario.

Below I compare both stats. Since Ontario publishes numbers for fiscal years (2020/2021) and CIHI publishes for calendar years, I compare Ontario numbers to each of CIHI's fiscal years. You can see the differences below.

CIHI is under-reporting by either 5,998 or 5,185 abortions, depending on which of CIHI's years you look at. That's about 17% under reported. It could be even higher than that, since Ontario also has four other abortion codes it uses, that CIHI does not use. 

That would be 759 additional abortions, 126 of which are fetal reduction abortions, where one fetus is killed and the sister or brother is allowed to live. I wonder how the abortionist decides which fetus he will kill? I wonder if the mother will tell her surviving child when she grows up, that her twin brother or sister was killed so that she could live? 

Abortion is evil enough on its own; fetal reduction abortions just add another layer of evil on top of the first.

The abortions CIHI does not include, that Ontario does include:

• P001A MEDICAL MGMT FETAL DEMISE BETWEEN 14-20 WKS GESTATION (530 + 67 = 597 abortions)
• P054A FETAL MANAGEMENT-SGL/MULT-INTRACARDIAC KCL INJECTION (126 abortions)
• S770A CORPUS UTERI - HYSTEROTOMY. (30 abortions)
• S783A CORPUS UTERI - HYSTEROTOMY WITH TUBAL INTERRUPTION. (6 abortions)
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