The moment abortion hits the order paper in the House of Commons, both sides know it won’t be over until another round of \u0027wrenching and divisive\u0027 debate has…
Trying to abort a healthy fetus at eight months gestation will get you rejected by a hospital’s ethical guidelines, but there’s nothing illegal about it. And it’s all due to a rapid-fire series of events in the late 1980s so politically traumatic that most Canadian politicians still prefer to pretend it never happened.
Politically, abortion spent much of the 1970s and 1980s on the parliamentary back-burner. Then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau championed any number of progressive causes during his 15-year premiership, but elective abortion definitely wasn’t one of them. It didn’t arise as a major issue in any of the six federal elections between 1968 and 1988.Article content
The case was the culmination of nearly 20 years of open civil disobedience on the part of Henry Morgentaler, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor who in 1969 opened Canada’s first publicly advertised abortion clinic in Montreal as an open challenge to the status quo. All R. v. Morgentaler did was quash the existing criminal ban and throw the issue back to the House of Commons. The Supreme Court at the time would have assumed that Canada would continue to have a law governing abortion, albeit one that wasn’t as “restrictive.”Article content
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