the regina mom received a call from her Member of Parliament, Ray Boughen, this afternoon. He said it was in response to her call about two University of Regina international students facing deportation but she had not, in fact, called. She had emailed but didn't press that fact with him. In hindsight she suspects he must be feeling some heat over the issue since it hit the front page of the local daily. When asked about his silence over it he said it is not his place to speak to that issue, that the Speaker, MP for Regina Qu'Appelle, Andrew Scheer, has spoken to it. He said he waits for his turn to speak and will be speaking on Aboriginal issues next week.

Motion 312 -- a motion put forward by a backbencher from Kitchener Waterloo asks our Canadian government to strike a parliamentary committee to "review the declaration in Subsection 223(1) of the Criminal Code which states that a child becomes a human being only at the moment of complete birth and to answer the questions hereinafter set forth..."

The questions MP Woodworth would like this committee to "answer" primarily concern medical opinion and legal precedent on when life begins and the options available to Parliament to potentially change that.

the regina mom knows that Mr. Harper clearly stated, numerous times, that a Conservative government would not re-open the abortion debate. Yet, on Thursday, April 26, she watched members of Parliament debate Motion 312, which ultimately seeks personhood rights for fetuses which would enable the re-criminalization of abortion, as well as deny the constitutional rights of all pregnant women. In other words, it is yet another backdoor attack on women's Charter rights.

Today, on Parliament Hill, the Radical Handmaids gather in opposition to Motion 312, the anti-choice motion that seeks to redefine when human life begins. The Motion will be debated in the House of Commons on Thursday. The Handmaids' action, based on Margaret Atwood's novel, The Handmaid's Tale, is sure to be an interesting one.

Sporting red garments and "Flying Nun" hats in an allusion to Margaret Atwood's classic novel The Handmaid’s Tale, the Handmaids are protesting Bill M-312 as a regressive attack on women.