OTTAWA, June 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A women’s group claiming non-partisanship is being led by the sister of the B.C. Liberal Party’s youth leader, and “backed by Liberal operatives,” according to a Vancouver Sun report. The Sun’s report, Pro-Choice Website ‘a Liberal Lie,’ claims that the pro-abortion group, Women Demand Better, is nothing more than a front for a Liberal-led attack trying, once again, to paint Stephen Harper as a radical conservative. “The purpose of this website is to make Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party aware that their position on abortion and other women’s issues is unacceptable,” Women Demand Better founder Cassandra Parlee, revealed in a press release. Parlee is a 17 year-old high school student from New Westminster, B.C.
In an interview with the Sun, Parlee said she has “no doubt” that the Conservatives would outlaw abortion. Conservative MP John Reynolds said the Liberals lie when they say that Harper will introduce abortion restrictions. “Liberals lie,” he said. “This is about how low they’ll go to try to maintain power.”“When you’re in deep trouble in an election campaign you try to paint the Conservative party as an ultra-right-wing Christian right party,” Reynolds, MP for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast, said. “And nothing could be further from the truth. Harper has made it very plain.” Read Vancouver Sun coverage: https://www.canada.com/components/printstory/printstory4.aspx?id=35721dd2-1d1f-4f4f-a622-0055896e8e47&page=2