Canada's employment insurance guidelines reveal that a woman who aborts her child after 19 weeks gestation is eligible to receive 17 weeks of maternity leave, the same as a mother who gives birth
Canada pays full maternity benefits after abortion [Excerpts]
Pro-life Canadians have complained for years that they are forced to pay for the direct killing of unborn children through the country's health system. It turns out they are also paying for abortive mothers to get full maternity benefits.
Canada's employment insurance guidelines reveal that a woman who aborts her child after 19 weeks gestation is eligible to receive 17 weeks of maternity leave, the same as a mother who gives birth. For an abortion occurring before 19 weeks gestation, the woman can collect sick leave for the same length of time.
"The whole situation is pretty ludicrous," said Mary Ellen Douglas, national organizer for Campaign Life Coalition. "Why should you pay for somebody killing their child, and then expect to pay for benefits if the child is no longer there?"
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation first highlighted this federal policy in 2008. John Williamson, CTF's executive director, told The Interim that maternity benefits were established by an Act of Parliament with the intention of allowing parents bonding time with their newborn child.
He said extending these benefits to a woman who aborted her child is "obscene" and a "perversion of the EI system."
Campagne Quebec-Vie, the Quebec division of Campaign Life Coalition, has recently highlighted that women are also given maternity benefits under the Quebec Parental Insurance Plan.
"How is it fair that I am being asked, along with other taxpayers of good will, to not only pay for the assassination of a 'less than perfect' child, but that I am also paying for several months' 'maternity leave'?" asked Georges Buscemi, CQV's president.
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