Comments on: Lives Tragically Cut Short by Abortion: Letter to the Editor http://notinvain.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/lives-tragically-cut-short-by-abortion-letter-to-the-editor/ ...knowing that in the Lord, your labour is not in vain. 1 Cor 15:58 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:44:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: David Wozney http://notinvain.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/lives-tragically-cut-short-by-abortion-letter-to-the-editor/#comment-93 David Wozney Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:54:54 +0000 http://notinvain.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-93 Re: “<i>Since the 1988 Supreme Court decision overturning Canada’s abortion laws, Canada has effectively had no abortion law, meaning that an unborn child has no legal protection inside the womb.</i>” Not all of Canada's abortion laws have been overturned. Canada still has an abortion law. Within the meaning of the Canadian Criminal Code, a “child becomes a human being” “during its birth” as a human being. The Criminal Code recognizes a “child” in “a living state” in the “body of its mother” “before” its birth as a human being. A child, in the body of its mother, within the meaning of the Criminal Code, is that which could completely proceed, in a living state, from the body of its human mother, whether or not (a) it could ever breathe; (b) it could ever have an independent circulation; or (c) the navel string is severed. Section 218 of the Criminal Code states: “Every one who unlawfully abandons or exposes a child who is under the age of ten years, so that its life is or is likely to be endangered or its health is or is likely to be permanently injured, (a) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years; or (b) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding eighteen months.”. It is unlawful in Canada to abandon or expose a child so that its life is endangered. Aborting a child involves abandoning or exposing a child so that its life is endangered. Thus, an artificially induced abortion of a child is unlawful in Canada. People should have the “right to choose” to enforce Section 218 of the Canadian Criminal Code. Re: “Since the 1988 Supreme Court decision overturning Canada’s abortion laws, Canada has effectively had no abortion law, meaning that an unborn child has no legal protection inside the womb.”

Not all of Canada’s abortion laws have been overturned. Canada still has an abortion law.

Within the meaning of the Canadian Criminal Code, a “child becomes a human being” “during its birth” as a human being. The Criminal Code recognizes a “child” in “a living state” in the “body of its mother” “before” its birth as a human being.

A child, in the body of its mother, within the meaning of the Criminal Code, is that which could completely proceed, in a living state, from the body of its human mother, whether or not (a) it could ever breathe; (b) it could ever have an independent circulation; or (c) the navel string is severed.

Section 218 of the Criminal Code states:
“Every one who unlawfully abandons or exposes a child who is under the age of ten years, so that its life is or is likely to be endangered or its health is or is likely to be permanently injured,
(a) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years; or
(b) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding eighteen months.”.

It is unlawful in Canada to abandon or expose a child so that its life is endangered. Aborting a child involves abandoning or exposing a child so that its life is endangered. Thus, an artificially induced abortion of a child is unlawful in Canada.

People should have the “right to choose” to enforce Section 218 of the Canadian Criminal Code.

]]>