By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.
Even though “Roxanne’s Law”–a proposed piece of legislation that would target coercive abortions in Canada– is “done like dinner” as Stephen Harper has ordered his cabinet members not to vote for it, its proponents, such as MP Rod Bruinooge, are soldiering on.
It’s scheduled to go to a second vote in the House of Commons on December 15, and Faytene Kryskow, another proponent of the act, has posted a video asking for prayer for the legislation.
Although I am quite pro-life myself, I saw some potential problems and concerns when the legislation was introduced a while back. For example, the crown counsel in the case of Roxanne Fernando, the lady whom the legislation is nicknamed for, didn’t emphasize in court that she was killed due to her refusal to have an abortion.
One of the Conservative MPs has been running radio commercials in our area in support of the bill. Your tax dollars hard at work…
Bene D had written this post earlier:
http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2010/05/21/bye-bye-bill-c-510-roxannes-law/
In your previous post about this, you made the very good point that Roxanne’s case is not clear-cut and if coerced abortion is so rampant, why couldn’t they find a better example?
Well, just a couple of weeks ago, a pregnant woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death tried to use that defense. That he was trying to coerce her into having an abortion and she had to defend the fetus. It didn’t fly and she got 5 years for manslaughter. It probably didn’t help that she was a drug user and prostitute.
http://scathinglywrongrightwingnutz.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-poster-girl-for-coerced-abortion.html
Of all Laws, why Roxanne’s Law?
Why does Faytene Kryskow have such and interest in this law?
What draws her to it?
The intentions, spirit and history of this law has a sad and dark side to it with the death of the person of whom the law is named after.
This law is very anti-abortion
Faytene Kryskow raised as a Ukrainian Roman Catholic is still the way she is raised in some ways.
Part of this is her upbringing as a Roman Catholic
But it is not just her it is us all as to upbringings and why we are the way we are today.
What is in our roots, family & personal dynamics, what is passed and rippled down is something that concerns us all.
The Roxanne’s Law story is sad
There can and could be laws that would be compatible with preventing and abortion
If there is strategic, preventative thinking in place about this matter can be helpful.
The main issue is in addressing the situation of abortion
But is going about it through Roxanne’s Law the best idea or not?
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