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I have good news for those of you who are pro-choice, and for my many worried friends. Abortion rights in Canada are not under threat. Please ignore the headlines, the giant anti-abortion rally in Ottawa last week, all stories about Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge and the large amounts of airtime...
As surely as day follows night, the time will come when one or more private members’ bills on abortion find their way to the floor of Parliament.
When that happens, it will almost certainly be at the initiative of a Conservative MP.
Anti-abortion feelings run highest within Stephen Harper’s caucus...
In a concerted broadside against Ottawa, Quebec legislators have unanimously challenged the Harper government’s stance on abortion and asserted women’s right to choose.
The Quebec National Assembly adopted an all-party motion on Wednesday urging the federal government to end its “ambiguity” on...
It is wildly ironic that the A-word no Canadian prime minister has wanted to utter since 1989 is now roaring in Stephen Harper’s ears, with little indication the cacophony will quieten.
That’s A for Abortion, an issue that had dropped out of political discourse for decades, just as the procedure...
Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals are trying to drive wedges in the Harper government over the abortion issue – this, after a senior Quebec cabinet minister criticized the views of Catholic Cardinal who supported the government’s decision to keep access to safe abortion out of its G8 maternal health...
MONTREAL, May 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A controversial Canadian Catholic priest has denounced the highest-ranking prelate in the nation, Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec City, the primate of Canada, after the cardinal reiterated the Church's teaching against direct abortion in all cases,...
Much ink has been spilled over Canada's so-called G8 initiative on maternal and child health for the developing world. Many have urged the government forward on this laudable mission, while others—demonized as spiteful people with a narrow domestic agenda—have railed against the government's...
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff came out with guns blazing at a dinner in Toronto on Monday.
In a speech to about 1,000 of his party’s supporters, Ignatieff attacked Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s views on abortion and the economy.
He accused the Conservative government of trying to start a “...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Islamic countries, home to about half the estimated 400,000 women worldwide who die in childbirth each year, have promised to cut maternal mortality, U.S. Secretary of Health Kathleen Sebelius said on Monday.
Sebelius said she had also discussed the need to ensure women's...
The top Catholic official in Quebec has angered politicians and women's rights advocates alike after speaking at an anti-abortion rally over the weekend, and repeating the church's stance against abortion in all cases.
Speaking at the Campagne Pro-Vie conference in Quebec City on Saturday,...
Call to Action: Maternal and Child Health at The G8 Summit -- please download the attached the complete official (Hansard) records of the entire debate and vote.
Sign Petition: Include funding for family planning and safe abortion in Canada’s G8 Maternal/Child Health Initiative
