Abortion petitions include 3,816 names

Further to my good news story about abortion related petitions being read in Parliament, I have learned the actual number of names on the petitions, and the MPs who read them.

I don't know, but I think we really need to continue doing this across the country. We need to continue gathering signatures and telling our politicians that we want protection for unborn children.

Here again are the links ARPA has on their website for the first two petitions below, here and here, for you to print and get more signatures.

We can't stop doing this.

Petitions Regarding Abortion

Presented in the House of Commons during the 1^st session of the 41^st Parliament

#1:

"Whereas Canada is the only nation in the Western world and in the company of China and North Korea without any laws restricting abortion;

And whereas Canada's Supreme Court has said it is Parliament's responsibility to enact abortion legislation;

Therefore, we call upon the House of Commons in Parliament assembled to speedily enact legislation that restricts abortion to the greatest extent possible."

INQUIRY	Member of Parliament who presented the petition (riding of the MP)	DATE*	NUMBER OF SIGNATORIES
411-0374	Mr. Cannan (Kelowna-Lake Country)	Feb 1, 2012	138
411-0416	Mr. Rafferty (Thunder Bay-Rainy River)	Feb 7, 2012	139
411-0422	Mr. Hillyer (Lethbridge)	Feb 8, 2012	99
411-0455	Mr. Allison (Niagara West-Glanbrook)	Feb 13, 2012	113
411-0457	Ms. Charlton (Hamilton Mountain)	Feb 13, 2012	25
411-0484	Mr. VanKesteren (Chatham-Kent-Essex)	Feb 15, 2012	139
411-0493	Ms. Shipley (Lambton-Kent-Middlesex)	Feb 15, 2012	25
411-0494	Ms. Shipley (Lambton-Kent-Middlesex)	Feb 15, 2012	70
411-0495	Ms. Shipley (Lambton-Kent-Middlesex)	Feb 15, 2012	66
411-0496	Ms. Shipley (Lambton-Kent-Middlesex)	Feb 15, 2012	50
411-0539	Mr. Chong (Wellington-Halton Hills)	Feb 29, 2012	47
411-0540	Mr. Chong (Wellington-Halton Hills)	Feb 29, 2012	220
411-0543	Mr. Tilson (Dufferin-Caledon)	Feb 29, 2012	25
411-0553	Mr. Komarkicki (Souris-Moose Mountain)	Mar 1, 2012	75
411-0563	Mr. Warawa (Langley)	Mar 1, 2012	25
411-0575	Mr. Sweet (Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale)	Mar 2, 2012	194
411-0576	Mr. Rajotte (Edmonton-Leduc)	Mar 2, 2012	35
411-0587	Mr. Warawa (Langley)	Mar 5, 2012	41
411-0636	Mr. Tweed (Brandon-Souris)	Mar 12, 2012	89
411-0647	Mr. Merrifield (Yellowhead)	Mar 12, 2012	25
411-0648	Mr. Merrifield (Yellowhead)	Mar 12, 2012	85
411-0649	Mr. Merrifield (Yellowhead)	Mar 12, 2012	56
411-0650	Mr. Merrifield (Yellowhead)	Mar 12, 2012	64
411-0655	Mr. Mayes (Okanagan-Shuswap)	Mar 12, 2012	130
411-0656	Mr. Mayes (Okanagan-Shuswap)	Mar 12, 2012	44
411-0657	Mr. Mayes (Okanagan-Shuswap)	Mar 12, 2012	80
411-0673	Ms. Hoeppner (Portage-Lisgar)	Mar 14, 2012	99
411-0674	Ms. Hoeppner (Portage-Lisgar)	Mar 14, 2012	102
411-0686	Mr. McColeman (Brant)	Mar 14, 2012	79
411-0687	Mr. McColeman (Brant)	Mar 14, 2012	25
411-0688	Mr. McColeman (Brant)	Mar 14, 2012	25
411-0689	Mr. McColeman (Brant)	Mar 14, 2012	42
411-0690	Mr. McColeman (Brant)	Mar 14, 2012	25
411-0703	Mr. Hillyer (Lethbridge)	Mar 15, 2012	116
411-0711	Mr. Sopuck (Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette)	Mar 16, 2012	30
411-0729	Mr. Lunney (Nanaimo-Alberni)	Mar 26, 2012	40
411-0742	Mr. Cannan (Kelowna-Lake Country)	Mar 27, 2012	75
411-0769	Mr. Wallace (Burlington)	Mar 29, 2012	143
411-0777	Mr. Schellenberger (Perth-Wellington)	Mar 30, 2012	27
411-0829	Mr. Braid (Kitchener Waterloo)	Apr 5, 2012	50
411-0831	Mr. Strahl (Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon)	Apr 5, 2012	92
411-0832	Mr. Strahl (Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon)	Apr 5, 2012	29
TOTAL SIGNATURES			3,098

* Date the petition was presented in the House of Commons.

#2:

"Whereas Canada’s 400 year old definition of a human being says a child does not become a human being until the moment of complete birth, contrary to twenty-first century medical evidence;

And whereas Parliament has a solemn duty to reject any law that says some human beings are not human;

Therefore, we call upon the House of Commons in Parliament assembled to confirm that every human being is recognized by Canadian law as human by amending Section 223 of our Criminal Code in such a way as to reflect twenty-first century medical evidence."

INQUIRY	Member of Parliament who presented the petition (riding of the MP)	DATE*	NUMBER OF SIGNATORIES
411-0677	Mr. Hoback (Prince-Albert)	Mar 14, 2012	25
411-0685	Mr. McColeman (Brant)	Mar 14, 2012	26
411-0695	Mr. Mayes (Okanagan-Shuswap)	Mar 14, 2012	50
411-0704	Mr. Hillyer (Lethbridge)	Mar 15, 2012	99
411-0730	Mr. Lunney (Nanaimo-Alberni)	Mar 26, 2012	37
411-0733	Mr. Chong (Wellington-Halton Hills)	Mar 26, 2012	25
411-0768	Mr. Miller (Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound)	Mar 29, 2012	52
411-0780	Mr. Cannan (Kelowna-Lake Country)	Apr 2, 2012	25
411-0783	Mr. Woodworth (Kitchener Centre)	Apr 2, 2012	25
411-0810	Mr. Hillyer (Lethbridge)	Apr 4, 2012	52
411-0813	Mr. Kamp (Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission)	Apr 4, 2012	52
411-0828	Mr. Hillyer (Lethbridge)	Apr 4, 2012	75
411-0833	Mr. Strahl (Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon)	Apr 5, 2012	96
TOTAL SIGNATURES			639

* Date the petition was presented in the House of Commons.

#3:

We, the undersigned Citizens of Canada, draw the attention of the House to the following:

That the Supreme Courte on January 28^th 1988 stated that it is for Parliament to enact the appropriate defences of its legitimate interest in the lives of all subjects, including those yet in the womb.

That a destructive vacuity in the Criminal Code has resulted in the failure of the Supreme Court to strike down the phrase ‘after becoming a human being’ (223(2)) along with the then Section 251 of the Criminal Code;

That this phrase has long exposed to destructive harm a child in anyone’s womb at anytime in Canada;

Therefore, your petitioners request that Parliament consider restoring to the Criminal code the prudence it held prior to 1968, by removing the words ‘after becoming a human being’ from Section 223(2).

INQUIRY	Member of Parliament who presented the petition (riding of the MP)	DATE*	NUMBER OF SIGNATORIES
411-0249	Mr. Norlock (Northumberland-Quite West)	Dec 7, 2011	40
411-0357	Mr. Norlock (Northumberland-Quite West)	Jan 30, 2012	39
TOTAL SIGNATURES			79

* Date the petition was presented in the House of Commons.

GRAND TOTAL: 3,816

Source: Office of the Clerk of Petitions

Survival

"Evolution is imperfect and often a violent process. A battle between what exists and what is yet to be born. Amidst these birth pains, morality loses its meaning, the question of good and evil reduced to one simple choice: survive or perish."
(From heroes Better Halves [1.06])

I have been trying to understand why women have abortions. I mean really understand, sort of on a primal level.

Recently I had a conversation with someone on the subject who is somewhere in the middle on her views on abortion. Not completely pro-life, not completely pro-choice. She is someone I respect, and who also defends a woman's choice to have an early abortion. In other words, someone who is not an extremist on either end of the abortion debate.

My thoughts below do not apply to the pro-abortions. The pro-abortions are those people, who tell us that abortion is always acceptable and moral whenever a woman decides it is. No if, ands, or buts. They believe in full abortion rights for any and all reasons and vehemently oppose any legal limits or restrictions on abortion. They speak out loudly and usually rudely, any time any other human being has the gaul to suggest that limits should be placed on abortion.

What the pro-abortions motives may be, I couldn't even hazard to guess.

So I am not trying to understand this group and their noisy hateful attack dog tactics. I am trying to understand the reasons a majority of the rest of women have an abortion.

The woman of whom I speak now, is the average woman, the one out there who finds herself unexpectedly pregnant.

She is paralyzed with fear by an unwanted, unplanned pregnancy. The way she sees it, either the baby survives, or she survives. The anguish and torture she feels is psychological torture. Because she literally believes that her life is being threatened (rightly or wrongly), she believes that she acts in self-defence. This is about survival for her.

It is analogous to her, to a situation where someone were to physically attack her from the outside, and she reacts to protect her body. Only this time the threat is psychological and comes from within. But the threat is the same, maybe even worse. In both cases she is fighting for her life.

The reason this woman would choose to have an abortion is because of this psychological trauma she experiences from the pregnancy. She feels that to make the trauma go away, she must have the abortion. The pregnancy causes her such anguish that she must stop the pregnancy in order to be able to breathe, to live, to be human and to live her life. She has no other option. She is trapped. This is not about logic for her, this is about survival. For her to survive she must do this.

So why doesn't this woman give the child up for adoption? It is because even though she acknowledges that there will be psychological effects from the abortion, she believes that the psychological effects of giving up her child would be far worse than the abortion. She has the abortion instead.

We must also throw into the mix, the fact that society has normalized abortion to such an extent, that it has become just another medical procedure. The woman knows that it is a 100% socially accepted "solution" to her problem.

And of course, abortions are extremely easy to get; they are paid for by our health care system and most politicians strongly support it and are deathly afraid to speak its name.

They even say that abortion is a "medically necessary procedure" when in most cases it isn't.

In a letter I received from the Ontario Minister of Health in a response to a letter I sent her, she opened up her first paragraph repeating not once, but four times, that abortion is a medically necessary procedure. I stared at those words wondering if she really believed what she wrote. It made me very sad.

Logically we know that abortion is not medically necessary. But the pro-abortions have said it is so often, that we don't even give it a second thought.

Finally, and maybe the most troubling for our anxious woman, is that if she doesn't buy into all this abortion propaganda, she will be attacked by other women (and men) for her lack of belief, her lack of worship at the altar of abortion. If she doesn't buy into the pro-abortions' "abortion rights" bible, then she isn't a true feminist.

Where does this leave us?

It leaves us with concerning ourselves for that women who feels there is no solution but to have that abortion. To encourage her to speak out like "Anna" did about her experience, even when there were hateful anonymous comments against her. I think a lot of women feel like Anna felt. Marginalizing her, or any woman, because she regrets her abortion is not respectful, and worse, it is not helpful.

It leaves us with talking about putting limits on abortion, about debating abortion, about getting our politicians to get over their fear of saying the word.

The status quo is not acceptable. As long as it continues, women will suffer. The pro-abortions have it wrong when they say the opposite.

As a society we need to build in some reason, some logic, and some compassion to the psychological trauma we have imposed on these women.

We need to help her, and we need to help her child. And this will allow her to save her own life--and survive.

CIHI announces release date for 2010 abortion statistics

I have been in correspondence with Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) regarding 2010 abortion statistics.

They have informed me that they will be releasing the 2010 statistics on April 17th at 3 pm ET.

Holy Thursday

John 17:1-11

`Father, the hour has come: glorify your Son so that your Son may glorify you; and, through the power over all mankind that you have given him, let him give eternal life to all those you have entrusted to him. And eternal life is this: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I have glorified you on earth, and finished the work that you gave me to do. Now, Father, it is time for you to glorify me with that glory I had with you before ever the world was.

I have made your name known to the men you took from the world to give me. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now at last they know that all you have given me comes indeed from you; for I have given them the teaching you gave to me, and they-have truly accepted this, that I came from you, and have believed that it was you who sent me. I pray for them; I am not praying for the world but for those you have given me, because they belong to you: all I have is yours and all you have is mine, and in them I am glorified. I am not in the world any longer, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep those you have given me true to your name, so that they may be one like us.'

Conservatives-that-have-been-had lineup grows

My letter in yesterday's National Post:

Re: Conservative Radicalism Goes Missing, Andrew Coyne, March 30.

I’m not sure why Andrew Coyne is so perturbed that fiscal conservatives “have been had.” Why does he think that they are so special? Social conservatives were “had” long ago and continue to be “had” with their faint hope clause that a Conservative majority would mean that Stephen Harper would do something about enacting abortion legislation once he got his majority. Ha! Not to be. Fiscal conservatives, join the lineup. There’s still plenty of room for everyone.

Patricia Maloney, Ottawa.