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OTTAWA
- Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), Life Canada, the Archdiocese
of Vancouver, the Catholic Civil Rights League and Campaign
Life Catholic have all come out in support of one key
group of amendments to the Assisted Reproductive legislation,
Bill C-13. The amendments, grouped into what is known
as group #2, are likely to receive debate within a week.
CLC
has for some months taken a very active part in the amendments
process and is encouraging Members of Parliament to support
the group 2 amendments. It has however also warned MPs
that the bill is fatally flawed and cannot be supported
on final vote. Life Canada, the new umbrella group for
educational pro-life groups in Canada, released a statement
on the bill noting that the group 2 amendments should
be supported and highlighted amendments 13 (which would
ban all cloning) and 17 (which, in principle, calls for
a ban on destructive research on human embryos). However,
Life Canada too says in their release that it "opposes
this legislation as it currently stands."
Bishop
Adam Exner of Vancouver issued a release noting that Catholic
legislators must vote against the legislation since "Bill
C-13 is certainly intrinsically unjust legislation, violating
human rights and dignity in numerous ways and gravely
so." The Catholic Civil Rights League has urged its
members to "Write your Member of Parliament to voice
your disapproval that bill C-13 would allow human embryos
to be killed for research purposes."
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Petition
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Re: Bill C-13 (Assisted Human Reproduction Act)
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