(LifeSiteNews.com) - Despite a massive misinformation campaign by radical abortion activists, there remains majority support for a bill designed to ensure that those who murder unborn children while attacking pregnant women can be held accountable for those murders. At a press conference in Ottawa yesterday, Conservative MP Ken Epp released the results of a poll he commissioned regarding his Private Members Bill, C-484, the Unborn Victims of Crime Act.
C-484 would make it a separate crime if an attacker knowingly harms or kills a fetus being carried by a pregnant woman.
The online survey, conducted by Angus Reid Strategies June 4-5 in Quebec only, shows that 50% of Quebecers support the Bill, while 35% are opposed and 15% undecided. Among women, support is at 53%.
"Given the massive misinformation campaign launched against this Bill, especially in Quebec for the past several weeks, I found the poll results quite revealing," said Mr. Epp. "Even though many groups, claiming to represent large constituencies, have spoken out viciously against the Bill and made claims that are simply not true, Quebecers still show a fair level of support for the Bill. That said, I believe opponents of the Bill have created fear that C-484 will reduce women's rights. They have convinced many people that this Bill will somehow impact access to abortion, which is simply not the case."
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