With regard to the Liberal leadership race it might be prudent for pro-lifers to note that in 1979 Campaign Life asked a number of political candidates two questions:
1) If elected, will you work towards amending the Criminal Code to recognize the civil rights of children conceived but not yet born and to provide them with the same legal protection as anyone else?
2) If elected, will you work towards stopping government funding of any agency that directly or indirectly counsels women to have abortions or engages in abortion referrals?
Three of the politicians that answered an unqualified “yes” to both these questions are now running for the Liberal leadership. However it would seem that Mark MacGuigan, Eugene Whelan, and John Munro have changed their minds or they answered “yes” to the questions in an attempt to capture pro-life support. Indeed, Campaign Life later publicly advertised these gentlemen as being pro-life on the basis of their unqualified “yes” answers to both these questions.
Today, John Munro says he is satisfied with the law as it is.
Marc MacGuigan said recently that the law could not be changed and that he supports the law as it is.
Mr. Whelan has not been seen to be working to amend the laws to protect the unborn but after he was re-elected he was heard to say to some Campaign Life people during the Charter debate “You people make me sick.”
C.A.S.
