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Date: 1981-04-02
By: Canada (Parliament)
Citation: Canada, House of Commons Debates, 32nd Parl, 1st Sess, 1981 at 8875.
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THE CONSTITUTION—RIGHT TO LIFE 0F UNBORN CHILDREN—MOTION UNDER S.O. 43

Mr. S. J. Korchinski (Mackenzie): Madam Speaker, I rise under the provisions of Standing Order 43 on a matter of urgent and pressing necessity. Since the proposed Constitution does not give consideration to the rights of unborn children,and since the abortion rate last year was 65,000, the lives exterminated representing the size of my constituency and another city of 10,000, 1 move, seconded by the hon. member for Edmonton-Strathcona (Mr. Kilgour):

That the Prime Minister immediately announce his intention to exact a protection for unborn Canadians within any charter or, if there is failure to do so, that this House condemn the Prime Minister and his government for the endorsation of human destruction and that he remove himself as head of Canada’s government since this country does not deserve the condemnation of practising genocide.

Madam Speaker: Is there unanimous consent for this motion?

Some hon. Members: Agreed.

Some hon. Members: No.

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