Man kills woman's son - gets charge of attempted murder

He didn't want to be a father:

...After the sentencing, Knapp said Bryan was scared of being a bad father.

"One day he just snapped," she told the Chronicle Herald. "The only way he could get rid of the baby was to get rid of both of us."

The child's mother is completely disabled:

...I cannot work anymore, I can't walk properly, I lost my son (who) was my future. My mother has had to give up her entire life so she could take care of me, because I can't take care of myself anymore."

Now is the time

Please call or write your MP and indicate your support for Ken Epp's Unborn Victims of Crime Bill, scheduled for a vote on March 5.

Thank you.


Update! The bad news according to MDL is that the Harper government expects to be defeated on the budget March 4. Bob Fife says Dion wants to pull the trigger. Election sometime in April.

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Related: Murdered mom's family want unborn victims of violence covered by law - Province.

Victim's sister presses for change - Vancouver Sun.

Fighting for the Right to Live - Leader-Post.

Unborn Victims of Crime Bill still getting resistance

Why is it that most of us feel some kind of extra revulsion when a pregnant woman is murdered, but yet the Canadian public is so reluctant to call for additional punishment for the perpetrators?

The Unborn Victims of Crime Bill is still being bogged down by opposition parties and abortion activists who fear it is a slippery slope to the notion of 'personhood' for the fetus.

Perish the thought.


In other news, Kiera Tetley, who was only about one month away from being born, was murdered in Winnipeg on Tuesday, along with her mother Joanne Nadine Hoeppner.


Mother and sister now dead:

Tacked on the fridge of the battered green house was an image from a recent ultrasound of Hoeppner's fetus, showing hair, and a photo of her one-year-old son. Hoeppner wanted to regain custody of him from the foster home where he lives.

Where is your conscience, Canada?

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Update: It appears that this bill may get more support from the grass roots than politicians realize. The Winnipeg Sun's (albeit unscientific) poll on Jan. 2 shows 87% in favour of a murderer also being charged with the death of the unborn child.

Note to Canadian MP's - Please listen to your constituents.

H/T Hunter in comments.