It can’t happen here, right? – Salmon Arm Observer

It may well’t occur right here.

The final phrases stated, earlier than one thing occurs.

Many Canadians dart nervous glances in direction of the border following the once-unthinkable overturning of the 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling – the one guaranteeing the rights of ladies to reproductive freedom – executed not too long ago by the U.S. Supreme Court docket.

Over the previous six years, we’ve skilled a migration of damaging concepts brewed in America – escalating racial intolerance, misplaced nationalism and an aggression in direction of once-trusted media sources.

In Canada, abortion is authorized just because it isn’t unlawful.

Our personal Supreme Court docket struck down the abortion regulation in 1988, primarily based on the very fact it infringes on a lady’s proper to life, liberty and safety of particular person, as assured underneath the Constitution of Rights and Freedoms.

But entry to abortion varies among the many provinces and drawbacks girls who stay in rural areas.

In Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, the Northwest Territories, Prince Edward Island and the Yukon there are not any rural abortion suppliers.

In B.C there is only one.

Girls residing exterior of a metropolis confront vital prices and associated limitations so as to search the process.

Entry to abortion in Canada is decided by how provincial governments direct {dollars}, and once more there are variations.

Some provinces fund abortion solely as much as a 12-week gestation, whereas others like B.C. prolong that to 24 weeks plus six days.

There are not less than 84 anti-abortion teams working in Canada, and a big political will supporting them.

Since 1987, there have been 47 personal members payments launched in Parliament to limit or ban abortion.

The latest was about 9 months in the past, when a invoice was proposed to forbid abortion primarily based on intercourse choice. Two-thirds of the Conservative caucus voted in its favour. Nonetheless it was defeated 248-82.

Fourteen of B.C.’s 17 Conservative MPs supported the invoice, with Dan Albas (Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola), Cathy McLeod (Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo) and Rob Morrison (Kootenay-Columbia) saying ‘Nay.’

In the meantime, abortion charges have steadily declined up to now 15 years.

In keeping with the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, in 2020 74,155 girls had abortions, in comparison with 2012 when there have been 100,958.

The vast majority of these procedures happen in clinics, versus hospitals. For essentially the most half the numbers don’t embody medical, versus surgical, abortions.

Medical abortions are achieved with Mifegymiso, which is a mixture of medicine that block progesterone. It’s accessible in Canada by prescription and may solely be used within the first 9 weeks of a being pregnant.

There’s anecdotal proof suggesting there are medical doctors and different certified health-care staff who is not going to write these prescriptions.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to enshrine abortion rights into regulation so they might not simply be rescinded by future governments. That has but to occur.

The management race underway within the Conservative Social gathering additionally displays the temper of the nation.

Forerunner Pierre Poilievre declares his ease with the present scenario and says he has no plans to vary it. Contender Leslyn Lewis is clear in her aim to ban abortions on this nation.

A number of the different hopefuls discuss respecting girls, whereas conceding there’s room for interfering laws and votes of conscience.

This dialogue is just not about conscience or cradles, infants or booties.

It’s a couple of girl’s proper to life, liberty and safety of particular person, as assured underneath the Constitution of Rights and Freedoms.

So it will probably’t occur right here, proper?