Unborn Victims Act
Written on 8 Nov, 2016 at 8:27 in
Announcements, Features, Politics, Unborn Victims Act | Author:
Paul Tuns Jeff Durham and Nancy Kaake (centre back) are joined by Conservative MPs Harold Albrecht, Michael Cooper, Rachael Harder, Cathay Wagantall, Garnett Genuis, Kelly Block, and Mark Warawa on the day of the Molly and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Aug, 2016 at 6:17 in
Announcements, Features, Politics, Unborn Victims Act | Author:
Josie Loetke
On June 5, Candice Rochelle Bobb’s son passed away at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. Just three weeks earlier, he had been delivered prematurely by emergency C-section after his mother, who was then 24 weeks pregnant, was fatally shot in Etobicoke while sitting in the backseat of a vehicle. No one has yet to be arrested for the crime but the question remains: if someone were ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 Mar, 2015 at 8:06 in
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Paul Tuns Matthew Brush, 26, of LaSalle, Ont., has been charged with the murder of Cassandra Kaake, 31, who was found dead in a burnt-out home in Windsor in December. Kaake was seven months pregnant and named her unborn daughter Molly before she was bludgeoned to death. Molly also died.
Brush is being charged with a single murder because Canadian criminal law does not recognize the preborn child as a victim of crime.
Jeff Durham, Kaake’s former partner and Molly’s father, posted an open ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Feb, 2015 at 12:48 in
Politics, Unborn Victims Act | Author:
Paul Tuns Reps Rene Ellmers (4.N.C.) left and Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) right had initially backed the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act but withdrew their support and called for a weaker bill.
The US House of Representatives passed the “No Taxpayer Funding for ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Feb, 2015 at 12:31 in
Human rights, Unborn Victims Act | Author:
Pauline Kosalka A brain-dead pregnant Irish woman was taken off life support on Dec. 26 in wake of a Dublin High Court ruling that found that the unborn child would not have a chance of surviving. The woman, who was in her late 20s and already had two young children, was declared brain-dead on Dec. 3, four days after suffering a serious head injury because of a fall. Her parents had requested that she be taken off life support, but doctors refused, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Feb, 2015 at 14:00 in
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Pauline Kosalka The murder of a 31-year-old pregnant woman in Windsor, Ontario is leading some people to question why Canada’s laws don’t defend unborn victims of crime. Cassandra Kaake’s body was found by firefighters on Dec. 11 in a house on Benjamin Avenue in the southwestern Ontario city during a call to extinguish a fire. Kaake was seven months pregnant. The cause of her death was blood loss due to severe trauma.
In a press conference on Dec. 12, Staff Sgt. Mark Denonville ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Nov, 2014 at 9:46 in
Society & Culture, Unborn Victims Act | Author:
Steve Weatherbe Special to The Interim The laying of a criminal charge in the high-profile death of a London, Ont. newborn baby injured in the womb will expose the “inconsistencies” of current Canadian law that protects newborns, pro-life advocates say, while ignoring the same children if they have not yet made “the eight-inch journey down the birth canal.”
London police announced Sept. 26 the laying of a belated charge of criminal negligence for the death of newborn Rhiannon Bozek. Rhiannon died only seven days after her delivery ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Dec, 2007 at 10:04 in
Abortion, Politics, Pro-Life, Unborn Victims Act | Author:
Unborn victims of violence issue comes to forefront
After Aysun Sesen, a pregnant 25-year-old Toronto woman, was killed in October, the media focused on the the issue of unborn victims of violence and the absurdity that the unborn child is a legal non-entity in criminal law. Sesen was the fifth high-profile murder in Canada since 2005 that took the life of the mother and (unborn) child. Sesen’s family has demanded the federal government take action to recognize both victims of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Nov, 2007 at 11:52 in
Religion, Unborn Victims Act | Author:
Theresa Smyth On a mild fall day, I sit in the Dreamers’ Peace Garden in Regent Park South, contemplating the Month of the Dead. I offer my prayers in union with the one who, in another garden, brought his own agony to prayer. I hand to him my own grief and the grief of my counsellees.
According to a plaque affixed to a rock: “The purpose of the Regent Park Peace Garden is to act as a remembrance for all the lives lost ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Nov, 2007 at 11:30 in
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Interim Staff The Conservative government in Ottawa has nearly impeccable credentials when it comes to its tough-on-crime agenda. From minimum sentences to lessened tolerance for drug pushers to more tools for police, this government appears serious about tackling crime in Canada.
That makes it all the more disturbing that in 2006, the Prime Minister’s Office helped scuttle a private member’s bill from Conservative MP Leon Benoit that would have provided legal protection for unborn victims of violence and recourse to justice for their ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Sep, 2007 at 14:28 in
Unborn Victims Act | Author:
Doreen Beagan Atlantic Canada Correspondent
In Dartmouth, across the harbour from Halifax, N.S., Charlene Marie Knapp, 28, was admitted to hospital in the early morning of August 1 after being stabbed 15 times with a sword. She was almost four months pregnant.
Her sister, Stephanie Humber from Essex, Ont., later told the media that “three of the 15 stab wounds went clear through Charlene’s body. She underwent ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jul, 2006 at 11:33 in
Fetal Rights, Unborn Victims Act | Author:
Paul Tuns
Editor
In May, a sub-committee of the standing committee on procedural and House affairs ruled that Bill C-291, a private member’s bill by Conservative MP Leon Benoit (Vegreville-Wainwright) that would have made it a separate criminal offence to harm an unborn child during the commission of a crime against a pregnant mother, was non-votable. On June 6, the full committee upheld the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Dec, 1995 at 9:32 in
Abortion, Issues, Society & Culture, Unborn Victims Act | Author:
David Dooley Man who killed his baby in utero can be tried for murder
An appeal hearing in Great Britain will define whether a person who fatally injures a child “en ventre sa mere’ (in the womb of the mother) can be charged with murder or manslaughter.
The hearing follows a 1993 case where a trial judge acquitted a man accused of murdering his own child. The man stabbed his girlfriend who was 24026 weeks pregnant. The stabbing caused premature birth and the child ... (Continue reading)