He's mad

Heh.

Was just advised that Fr. Gravel is mad at us.

Can't imagine why...

Gravel said he was "uncomfortable" with the bill "because the member
putting it forward is part of a pro-life group, the Campaign Life Coalition, which
in my view is a rather extreme fanatical group, when it comes to life." Gravel
continued, "I'm pro-life but I'm not part of the pro-life movement in Canada."

The priest who had promised his Bishop before entering politics that he would not
take positions that went against the doctrines of the Church, added, "I also think
this bill will open the door to a re-criminalization of women who have abortions,
and that's not to be desired.

"I'm against abortion, but this is no way to solve the problem of abortion. It's
through education, through outreach, through helping women who have undesired
pregnancies I think that's how to solve the problem of abortion. But not
recriminalizing abortion, I don't ever want to see that happen"

Speaking in French, Gravel acknowledged that the murder of a pregnant woman is
abominable. "But," he added, "at the same time when the fetus is still in the
mother they're just one being. Its only when the fetus is born is when it becomes
another being, when it becomes a human being."

(More details tomorrow when Hansard comes available.)