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{
"time": "2016-10-17 15:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mrs. Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton\u2014Melville, CPC)",
"fr": "Mme Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton\u2014Melville, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4551268\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present petitions in support of protecting the rights of pregnant women to safely carry their children to term. In one of many personal letters I received along with these petitions, Alicia Johns states: \u201cHello, I'm 29 years old and I've given birth to four beautiful boys. Two of them were premature, one over seven weeks and one 10 weeks premature. Both are doing amazingly well. I'm now carrying my fifth son. I'm 28 weeks, six days pregnant, and counting down every day because each day he stays in my womb is important. I know from personal experience that nature can have its own plans and things don't always turn out the way we expect. What happened to Cassie and Molly was not natural, when the life of her and her daughter were brutally taken. When I make a choice to carry my child\u2014</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4551268\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai le plaisir de pr\u00e9senter diverses p\u00e9titions pour la protection du droit qu'ont les femmes enceintes de mener leur grossesse \u00e0 terme. Dans l'une des nombreuses lettres personnelles que j'ai re\u00e7ues en m\u00eame temps que ces p\u00e9titions, Alicia Johns \u00e9crit: \u00ab Bonjour, j'ai 29 ans et j'ai donn\u00e9 naissance \u00e0 quatre magnifiques gar\u00e7ons. Deux sont n\u00e9s pr\u00e9matur\u00e9ment, plus de sept semaines avant terme pour le premier, et 10 semaines pour l'autre. Les deux se portent \u00e0 merveille. Je suis maintenant enceinte de mon cinqui\u00e8me fils. J'en suis \u00e0 28 semaines et 6 jours. Je compte ainsi les jours parce que chaque jour de plus qu'il demeure dans mon ventre est important. Je sais par exp\u00e9rience que la nature en fait parfois \u00e0 sa t\u00eate et que les choses ne se passent pas toujours comme nous le voudrions. Ce qui est arriv\u00e9 \u00e0 Cassie et \u00e0 Molly n'est pas naturel. La vie de cette m\u00e8re et celle de sa fille ont \u00e9t\u00e9 brutalement interrompues. Quand je fais le choix de porter mon enfant...</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2016/10/17/cathay-wagantall-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/cathay-wagantall/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4403/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "9156524",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires Courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": "P\u00e9titions"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Justice",
"fr": "La justice"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2016/10/17/",
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}
}