REAL Women of Canada is one of several pro-family, pro-life organizations in Canada. The more groups there are, the more issues that can be addressed! Our groups sometimes join together to co-operate as a coalition, for example in a court case, or to promote a specific project. At other times, each organization takes its own approach to address issues. Always, however, all the pro-family groups operate on the same wavelength, holding the same objectives, i.e. promoting and protecting the traditional family.
All our groups play an important role in the broader pro-family, pro-life movement. From time to time, we ask our members to support a particular campaign sponsored by another group because there is no sense in duplicating specific projects. It would be appreciated, therefore, if you would support the following current campaigns:
UN Petition for the Unborn Child and the Family
The Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (www.c-fam.org) is heading an international coalition of groups circulating a petition for the unborn child and family around the world. The goal is to get a total of one million names and present the petition to the United Nations in December.
The petition calls for Member States of the UN to interpret the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as protecting the unborn child from abortion. It also calls for special protection for the family. These are ideas, right out of the original Universal Declaration, that have been forgotten over time.
This petition is necessary because the UN is the font of a great deal of anti-life propaganda. UN agencies and UN-related groups are at the forefront of making abortion a universally recognized human right. That is, UN radicals want to make killing babies in the womb a human right. Can there be anything more evil that that???The pro-life movement at the UN is fighting this hideous movement to kill babies. We are outspent ten million to one and out-manned one thousand to one, but this hasn’t stopped our effectiveness!
To sign the petition, go to www.c-fam.org/campaigns/lid2/default.asp. REAL Women’s web site also includes information on this petition. Look under the heading “Alert” on the web site: www.realwomenca.com
Select the language of your choice, and sign the petition. Would you please forward this note to all of your friends and family, to everyone in your address book? We must show the UN there is global support for the unborn child and the family!
Bill C-268 – Human Trafficking of Persons Under 18 Years of Age
This Bill amends the Criminal Code to include a mandatory minimum penalty of imprisonment for 5 years for offences involving trafficking of persons under the age of 18 years. Our law must send a clear message that the trafficking of children is a serious crime and severe penalties will be imposed on anyone committing this offence.
On September 30, 2009, Bill C-268 passed the House of Commons, and has now been passed by the Senate. Many thanks for Conservative MP Joy Smith (Kildonan-St. Paul, Manitoba) for her private members bill on this crucial issue.
Bill C-384 – Euthanasia Bill
This Private Members Bill, tabled by Bloc MP Francine Lalonde, would legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada. It is not about dying with dignity or palliative care. Bill C-384 is about giving the power to a physician to directly and intentionally cause the death of individuals. It is not limited to the terminally ill; it permits people with chronic physical or mental pain to die by lethal injection. The Bill does not provide any effective safeguards for vulnerable people.
A new website is dedicated to defeating Bill C-384 at: www.stopbillc-384.com. This site contains all the information you need to organize a response to Bill C-384, including a postcard and petition campaign. Please notify your MP of your opposition to the Bill.
The first hour of debate on Bill C-384 was held on October 2, 2009 in the House of Commons and went very well. The second hour of debate is tentatively scheduled for December 1, 2009 with a final vote on second reading of the bill to take place on December 2, 2009. If the vote is not carried on second reading, the bill will die on the Order Paper. If it passes second reading, then the bill goes to the Justice Committee for review. Hopefully it will not get that far. We must continue to contact our MP’s to defeat Bill C-384. Please act now.
Financial Support
As we near the end of the year, we would like to encourage our members to renew their membership and to consider a year-end contribution to REAL Women of Canada. All of our work – the REALity news publication, intervention in the court cases, letters and presentations to Parliament, and the other lobbying and informational activities – are funded by memberships, donations and bequests.
We cannot do it without you! Your financial assistance is needed throughout the year for us to be able to effectively defend and speak out for the family. Please support us by donating whatever amount you can. All donations will be greatly appreciated and will go directly to finance our efforts to defend marriage and the family.
A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
Cecilia Forsyth
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