Portage-Lisgar MP Candice Bergen's upset the Liberal majority in the House of Commons voted down Cassie and Molly's Law this week.

It was a Saskatchewan Conservative MP's Private Member's Bill, in response to the 2014 murder of a seven months pregnant woman, whose unborn child also died.

It would have allowed an additional offense in similar cases, and Bergen feels it would have done more.

"It would also add pregnancy as an aggravating circumstance for sentencing. Many times violence against women happens when a woman is carrying a baby, and her carrying this child should be part of the sentencing, and should be part of the consideration in the offense. This is something that I support very strongly, and I was very disappointed to see that the Liberals didn't"

Bergen adds Cassie and Molly's Law wasn't connected to abortion rights issues.

"It would be clearly in the case of a woman who wanted a child, her child that she was carrying. And the sad story is, it was a man whose wife was expecting their child, and was murdered. And he's just outraged because no justice has been done to account for the fact that his daughter was also murdered. And that's what this is all about."

Bergen believes Cassie and Molly's Law was reasonable.

"This is nothing that reasonable people could not acknowledge -- that when a woman is pregnant, if she is murdered or injured in that way, and killed, that child is also murdered, and that should be recognized in law. I believe strongly that it should be."