No federal law does not advance the right to abortion in the country, where the subject continues to divide the Canadian right.
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In the land of Margaret Atwood, author of the novel that has become a television series La Servante Éclaita, a feminist dystopia in which women are reduced to the role of carrier mothers, the possible questioning of the ROE v. Wade in the United States has caused a shock wave. Throughout Canada, radios, televisions and newspapers have taken the possible abolition of the right to abortion in the American neighbor to question a possible “contagion” effect. In the aftermath of the revelation by the political site of the preliminary project of the Supreme Court of the United States evoking the end of this constitutional right established for forty-nine years, the debate was also immediately invited to the House of Commons in Ottawa.
“A single moment of inattention can bring us back decades back,” warned Christine Normandin, deputy for the Bloc Québécois (independence), Tuesday May 3. “The government is resolved to protect the right of women to choose, a fundamental right,” replied the Vice-Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland, under a thunderous applause. Absent from the parliamentary enclosure, Liberal Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, published at the same time A message on Twitter : “The right to choose is a woman’s right. The end point.”
The question of a possible questioning of abortion, on the other hand, plunged into embarrassment of Canada’s Conservative Party. In an email sent to its members a few hours after Politico’s revelation, the party’s communication team cautiously enjoined them not to “comment on the flight”. “What is happening in the United States is happening in the United States, this is an issue that has been settled for decades in Canada and that’s good,” tried to elude the conservative deputy, Gérard Deltell.
The subject has divided the Canadian right for decades for decades which counts, especially in the provinces of meadows, in the west of the country, a militant religious basis very opposed to free choice. The conservative governments of Brian Mulroney (1984-1993) and Stephen Harper (2006-2015) tried several times to restrict access to the voluntary pregnancy interruption (IVG). In vain. Since then, successive leaders of the Conservative Party have regularly suspected of wanting to reopen the debate. Even if among the six candidates who seek his management today, vacant since February, only Leslyn Lewis, the only woman in the race, said she was openly opposed to abortion. She received the enthusiastic support from Campaign Life Coalition, a powerful anti-SIVG Canadian organization.
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