Mary Wagner’s long road toward achieving legal recognition of the humanity of the unborn has come to an end as the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed her leave to appeal Feb. 18.
In a statement to her supporters, Wagner wrote, “We are saddened and disturbed by the scandal of this refusal to hear our plea for the most vulnerable members of our human family, whose own pleas are too weak to be heard.”
Wagner had hoped to take a constitutional challenge of the Criminal Code to the country’s top court to address what her lawyer Charles Lugosi described as a “once-in-a-century question” — whether Parliament has unlimited authority to define who is and who isn’t a human being.