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How the Liberals Voted on the Unborn Victims of Crime Act - Editorial

Anti-Choice, pro-abortion extremist Liberal MPs revealed

By John-Henry Westen

OTTAWA, March 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The second reading vote on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act was a very educational moment for the voting public in Canada.  With the record of the vote, the public has been given - with respect at least to those Members who turned up for the vote - a clearer view of just who are the pro-abortion extremist Liberal Party MPs in Parliament.

While the vote was not able to distinguish those who are pro-life from those who are not, it was able to identify those so radically in favour of abortion they could not even bring themselves to vote in support of legislation promoting a woman's right to choose life for her child - on a bill that had nothing to do with abortion.

National polling released last October found that even among Canadians who support abortion at any stage in the pregnancy, a majority - 55% - are in favour of "legislation making it a separate crime to injure or kill a foetus during an attack on the mother" - which is the intent of bill C-484.

LifeSiteNews.com reported last week that the Bloc Quebecois voted unanimously against the bill, and a lone member of the NDP gave the bill support while the remainder of the Party opposed it.  Moreover Prime Minister Steven Harper and all the Conservatives except for four of them supported the legislation.  (see coverage: The Four Conservatives Who Voted Against the Unborn Victims of Crime Act http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/mar/08030608.html )

The Liberal vote on the bill however was a mixed bag.  Twenty seven Liberals voted to support bill C-484 while 55 voted against it.  Liberal Leader Stephane Dion was not present but at home with his wife hosting a party in honor of International Women's Day.  Attendees at the party were, according to Parliament Hill buzz, less than pleased with the result of the vote.  And, according to that same buzz, Dion assured them that on final reading the Liberals would be out in force to try to vote down the bill.

Here is a rundown compiled by LifeSiteNews.com of the way the Liberal Members voted on C-484

Voting Against were:

Alghabra, Omar - Mississauga-Erindale, Ontario  
Bagnell, Larry - Yukon  
Bains, Navdeep - Mississauga-Brampton South Ontario
Barnes, Sue - London West Ontario
Beaumier, Colleen -  Brampton West Ontario  
Bélanger, Mauril  - Ottawa-Vanier Ontario  
Bell, Don - North Vancouver British Columbia  
Bennett, Carolyn -  St. Paul's Ontario  
Bevilacqua, Maurizio - Vaughan Ontario  
Boshcoff, Ken - Thunder Bay-Rainy River Ontario 
Brison, Scott - Kings-Hants Nova Scotia 
Brown, Bonnie - Oakville Ontario 
Cotler, Irwin - Mount Royal Québec 
Cuzner, Rodger - Cape Breton-Canso Nova Scotia 
D'Amours, Jean-Claude - Madawaska-Restigouche New Brunswick 
Dhalla, Ruby - Brampton-Springdale Ontario 
Dryden, Ken - York Centre Ontario 
Easter, Wayne - Malpeque Prince Edward Island 
Folco, Raymonde - Laval-Les Îles Québec
Fry, Hedy - Vancouver Centre British Columbia
Godfrey, John - Don Valley West Ontario  
Goodale, Ralph - Wascana Saskatchewan  
Holland, Mark - Ajax-Pickering Ontario
Ignatieff, Michael - Etobicoke-Lakeshore Ontario
Jennings, Marlene - Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Lachine Québec
Kadis, Susan - Thornhill Ontario  
Keeper, Tina - Churchill Manitoba  
LeBlanc, Dominic - Beauséjour New Brunswick  
Marleau, Diane - Sudbury Ontario  
-Martin, Keith - Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca British Columbia  
Matthews, Bill - Random-Burin-St. George's Newfoundland and Labrador  
McCallum, John - Markham-Unionville Ontario  
McGuinty, David - Ottawa South Ontario  
Minna, Maria - Beaches-East York Ontario  
Murphy, Brian - Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe New Brunswick  
Neville, Anita - Winnipeg South Centre Manitoba  
Patry, Bernard - Pierrefonds-Dollard Québec  
Pearson, Glen - London North Centre Ontario  
Proulx, Marcel - Hull-Aylmer Québec  
Ratansi, Yasmin - Don Valley East Ontario
Redman, Karen - Kitchener Centre Ontario 
Regan, Geoff - Halifax West Nova Scotia  
Rodriguez, Pablo - Honoré-Mercier Québec
Rota, Anthony - Nipissing-Timiskaming Ontario
Russell, Todd - Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador  
Savage, Michael - Dartmouth-Cole Harbour Nova Scotia  
Scott, Andy - Fredericton New Brunswick  
Sgro, Judy - York West Ontario  
Silva, Mario - Davenport Ontario  
Simms, Scott - Bonavista-Gander-Grand Falls-Windsor Newfoundland and Labrador 
St. Denis, Brent - Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing Ontario  
Telegdi, Andrew - Kitchener-Waterloo Ontario  
Temelkovski, Lui - Oak Ridges-Markham Ontario 
Turner, Garth - Halton Ontario  
Wilfert, Bryon - Richmond Hill Ontario 

Voting in support of Bill C-484 were:

Bonin, Raymond - Nickel Belt Ontario  
Cannis, John - Scarborough Centre Ontario  
Chan, Raymond - Richmond British Columbia  
Cullen, Roy - Etobicoke North Ontario  
Dhaliwal, Sukh - Newton-North Delta British Columbia 
Guarnieri, Albina - Mississauga East-Cooksville Ontario  
Hubbard, Charles - Miramichi New Brunswick  
Karygiannis, Jim - Scarborough-Agincourt Ontario 
Lee, Derek - Scarborough-Rouge River Ontario  
MacAulay, Lawrence - Cardigan Prince Edward Island  
Malhi, Gurbax - Bramalea-Gore-Malton Ontario  
Maloney, John - Welland Ontario  
McGuire, Joe - Egmont Prince Edward Island 
McKay, John - Scarborough-Guildwood Ontario
McTeague, Dan - Pickering-Scarborough East Ontario
Murphy, Shawn - Charlottetown Prince Edward Island 
Pacetti, Massimo - Saint-Léonard-Saint-Michel Québec  
Scarpaleggia, Francis - Lac-Saint-Louis Québec  
Simard, Raymond - Saint Boniface Manitoba  
St. Amand, Lloyd - Brant Ontario  
Steckle, Paul - Huron-Bruce Ontario  
Szabo, Paul - Mississauga South Ontario 
Thibault, Robert - West Nova Nova Scotia  
Tonks, Alan - York South-Weston Ontario 
Valley, Roger - Kenora Ontario  
Wappel, Tom - Scarborough Southwest Ontario  
Wrzesnewskyj, Borys - Etobicoke Centre Ontario 

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