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One bill introduced last month would make it a criminal offence to "coerce" a woman into having an abortion. The proposed legislation was introduced by pro-life Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge, after a man in Winnipeg tried to force his girlfriend, Roxanne Fernando, into having an abortion in 2007. When she refused, her boyfriend murdered her.
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Another bill, C-484, proposed in 2008, would have made it a criminal offence for someone to attack a woman with the intent of killing her unborn child.
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Point 1: Assuming Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge's proposed legislation was already law before Roxanne was murdered, I guarantee you it would not have affected her boyfriend's choice. She would still have been killed. Bruinooge's law would do absolutely nothing to help her, or women in her predicament. In fact, if it were even enforcable, all it would do is put a lot of scared young men behind bars.
Point 2: It's already a criminal offence to attack a woman (actually, anyone regardless of gender). Whether you attack a person, or attack them with the intent of killing their unborn child, you're still
attacking them at the heart of it.
I'm surprised no one brought these up already.
Some people would consider parenting a form of jail sentence, anyways.