New Poll Finds 70% Canadians Back Unborn Victims of Crime Bill
Only 19% Opposed
Friday March 14, 2008

VANCOUVER, March 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Most Canadians are in favour of proposed legislation that would make it a separate crime if a fetus dies when a mother is attacked, a new Angus Reid Strategies poll has found.

In the online survey of a representative national sample, 70 per cent of respondents support the Unborn Victims of Crime Act, while 19 per cent express opposition.

Critics of the bill have stated that it could become a way to restore limits on abortion in Canada because it legally recognizes the existence of the fetus as a victim. However, the survey found that most Canadians disagree with this view. More than half of respondents (53%) think the Unborn Victims of Crime Act simply intends to punish offenders who knowingly harm a fetus in an attack against the mother. One-in-four (24%) see the bill as a veiled attempt to recriminalize abortion. the rest