Trudeau was reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn its 50-year-old Roe versus Wade ruling
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising to defend abortion rights in Canada and around the world after what he calls a “devastating setback” in the United States.
She added no country in the world is immune to what is going on in the United States, noting that a majority of Conservatives voted in favour of a private member’s bill last year to outlaw so-called sex-selective abortions. The bill was defeated.The Liberals will work across the government to ensure that women across Canada and the world have access to sexual and reproductive health services, she said.
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. The right to an abortion doesn’t exist in Canada in the same way it was enshrined in Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that had served as a rock-ribbed legal scaffold for reproductive rights champions around the world for nearly half a century.
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.
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