{"id":128833,"date":"2016-10-19T17:45:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T21:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=128833"},"modified":"2016-10-21T10:26:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T14:26:35","slug":"protecting-a-mom-and-her-daughter-shouldnt-be-controversial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/protecting-a-mom-and-her-daughter-shouldnt-be-controversial\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting a mom and her daughter shouldn\u2019t be controversial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In December of 2014, Canadian Cassie Kaake was looking forward to something: the arrival of her daughter, Molly. Unfortunately, baby Molly didn\u2019t survive the ten weeks until her birthday.<\/p>\n

Neither did her mom.<\/p>\n

A couple weeks before Christmas, they were found in a burned out house. Their deaths weren\u2019t accidental: a man has been charged<\/a> for Cassie\u2019s murder. He wasn’t charged for killing Molly, however; under Canadian law<\/a>, it wasn\u2019t a crime. Molly\u2019s father<\/a> thinks that should change.<\/p>\n

So does Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall. Wagantall has proposed Bill C-225; dubbed \u201cCassie and Molly\u2019s Law,\u201d it would have made killing Molly a separate crime. The need for such legislation is easy to see. In America, homicide is the leading<\/a> cause of death for pregnant women. As Dr. Christie L. Palladino said after her study on pregnancy and violence<\/a>, \u201cIt’s not what you want to read, but it’s the reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Violence against pregnant women isn\u2019t just an American problem, as women in Canada have been stabbed<\/a> and beaten to death<\/a> for refusing to abort. So why would anyone oppose a law like this? Ask the abortion lobby.<\/p>\n

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