This isn't the first time he had tried to bring the issue back to parliament

The abortion debate reopened earlier in the federal campaign, as Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau pressed the Conservative leader on his stance.

Andrew Scheer made his stance clear that he was pro-life, but would not reopen the abortion debate, should the Conservatives be elected.

Meanwhile in Waterloo Region, Kitchener Centre Conservative candidate Stephen Woodworth is running again.

He is also the creator of a group called The Democracy Defence Initiative, where he expressed pro-life views.

"When Parliament sends into courtrooms across this land a 400-year-old false assertion that children are not human beings until complete birth, Parliament is committing perjury," he wrote in a post from February 2019 titled "Have the Lights of Reason and Empathy Gone Out?"

He made headlines back in 2012 during his run as MP, where he push for a bill that would resurrect the abortion debate. At that time, Stephen Harper was Prime Minister and had promised that the debate would not reopened under his leadership.

The motion was defeated 203 to 91.

Later in the 2015 federal election, he lost his seat, running against the Liberal Candidate, Raj Saini.

In the intervening years, he spearheaded The Democracy Defence Initiative. Mark Kok from Ayr was listed as one of the directors. According to him, Woodworth created the group to fight for freedom of speech. Kok says he was involved at the start, but hasn't been part of the group for years.

The post also touched on other issues like gay marriage:

"In the Trinity Western University case, for example, the Supreme Court of Canada decided that people who believe a union between one man and one woman is especially sacred are *not* equal to people who believe there is nothing special or a sacred about such a union. The former may therefore be punished with exclusion from full participation in our public justice system."

The case he refers to is the Law Society of British Columbia v. Trinity Western University and Trinity Western University v. Law Society of Upper Canada.

Trinity Western was a B.C.-based evangelical Christian university that called on potential students to take a mandatory covenant. Among the strict code of conduct, it was required that students abstain from sex outside of heterosexual marriage.

The Supreme Court of Canada rule that the Law Societies did have the right "to deny approval to a proposed law school that would have required students to follow a religiously-based code of conduct restricting sexual behaviour," arguing it not only barred LGBTQ students, but also place them at risk.

In the group's mission statement page, it states there is an "undeclared war is being waged against freedom and democracy in Canada!" and that "Canada is no longer free for everyone!"

The Campaign Life Coalition, a pro-life group, had released a list of candidates they endorse. Their website is no longer accessible without a login at the moment, but PressProgress had access to the list.

Among the names included are Stephen Woodworth for Kitchener-Centre and Harold Albrecht for Kitchener-Conestoga.

570 NEWS has reached out to the Woodworth campaign for comment.