Comme l'a indiqué le député d'Avalon, le projet de loi est le résultat des efforts de Kate et David Bagby, grands-parents d'un jeune enfant, Zachary Turner, qui a été tué par sa mère, le Dr Shirley Turner.
As the member for Avalon has pointed out, the bill came about as a result of the efforts of Kate and David Bagby, the grandparents of a young child, Zachary Turner, who was killed by the child's mother whose name was Dr. Shirley Turner, who in killing herself also took the young infant child into the waters of Conception Bay, drowning both of them.