Landmark U.S. abortion ruling, debate ripple into Canada

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A landmark abortion ruling Friday by the U.S. Supreme Court docket is having repercussions in Canada as many weigh-in on the difficulty now flaring up south of the border.

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“It’s devastating resolution that has come down. Not that we weren’t anticipating it,” stated Carolyn Egan, with the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada.

“The response within the U.S. is much like what we’re feeling right here: rage, upset, all of that.”

Marketing campaign Life Coalition stated it’s celebrating the ruling which overturns the 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion resolution.

“Science is clearly on the aspect of life. Courts at the moment are lastly starting to meet up with science,” stated Jeff Gunnarson, President of the Coalition.

He added, “This victory signifies a loosening of the iron grip that the pro-abortion motion has held on America for many years.”

Josie Luetke, Youth Co-coordinator for Marketing campaign Life Coalition, stated the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s resolution was anticipated.

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It has “reignited the abortion debate not solely in Canada, however world wide,” she stated.

“The time for justice for pre-born infants has lastly arrived, and it is a day we have now lengthy waited for.”

However Egan stated the U.S. transfer doesn’t sign the difficulty will erupt as a stay, legislative situation in Canada.

“If one seems again on the final variety of federal elections, not one of the events wished to reopen the abortion situation. That was even out of the mouths of Stephen Harper, and O’Toole. We’ll see what the brand new chief of the Conservatives has to say,” stated Egan.

Interim Conservative chief Candice Bergen stated the get together’s place on abortion hasn’t modified and it’ll not introduce laws or reopen the controversy.

Abortion was first decriminalized in Canada in 1969.

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In 1988, the Supreme Court docket struck down the 1969 abortion regulation ruling it was unconstitutional and violated a girl’s Constitution proper to ‘safety of the individual.’

Parliament was tasked in 1988 to create a brand new regulation.

However such a invoice has by no means taken form.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau weighed in on the numerous American improvement Friday calling it ‘horrific’.

“My coronary heart goes out to the hundreds of thousands of American girls who at the moment are set to lose their authorized proper to an abortion. I can’t think about the concern and anger you’re feeling proper now,” he tweeted.

“No authorities, politician, or man ought to inform a girl what she will be able to and can’t do together with her physique. I would like girls in Canada to know that we’ll at all times get up to your proper to decide on.”

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