A private member’s bill meant to “commit health care providers’… [conscience] rights from the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in provincial law,” passed first reading at the Alberta legislature on Thursday. Continue reading
Alberta politicians are to debate the role of conscience rights and the responsibilities of physicians asked to assist or advise on abortions, contraception or medically assisted deaths. Continue reading
Alabama legislators approved the measure this year, hoping to mount a court challenge to abortion rights. Abortion providers sued to stop the law from going into effect. Continue reading
Scheer’s social conservativism was a perpetual line of attack from the Liberals during the campaign, a race whose tone and negativity Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said this week he regrets. Continue reading
A group called RightNow has produced “a guide to advancing the pro-life movement as a political staffer” and is sending it to members as part of a pitch to persuade them to apply to become a political staffer. Continue reading
More than 30 years after the 1988 Morgentaler Supreme Court decision struck down laws restricting abortion in Canada, advocates say access is still a challenge across the country, with rural Canadians at the greatest disadvantage. Continue reading
The comments from Blaine Higgs come a day after Trudeau promised that a re-elected Liberal government would come to the rescue of an abortion clinic in Fredericton. Continue reading
Scheer is trying to turn attention back to the ethics of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau. Continue reading
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says, if re-elected, he would sit down with New Brunswick’s premier to remind him that his province has an obligation to fund out-of-hospital abortions. Continue reading
Dr. Adrian Edgar, medical director of Clinic 554 in Fredericton, announced the closure in a statement on Thursday. Continue reading