Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn its 50-year-old Roe v. Wade ruling is “horrific.”
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Candice Bergen, the Conservative party’s interim leader, accused Liberals Friday of politicizing the abortion issue to create division among Canadians. She said her position is that coercive and sex-selective abortions are wrong, and a Conservative party under her leadership would allow free votes for issues of conscience in the House of Commons.
“These dangerous policies that threaten women’s health and women’s lives must not be allowed to take root in Canada,” the statement reads, with Singh demanding that Liberals work to improve abortion access for women in rural communities. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is “deeply troubled” by the decision and the laws that state legislators may be emboldened to pass in its wake, one of its directors, Cara Zwibel, said in a statement.
Official Languages Minister Ginette Petitpas-Taylor called it “horrible news” as others from the Liberal caucus lent their voices to the chorus: Sonia Sidhu labelled it a “monumental setback”; Gary Anandasangaree saying he is “devastated”; Peter Fragiskatos said he stands in solidarity with the women who look at this decision with “shock and fear”; Julie Dabrusin said it is all “too close to home.
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