At his earliest opportunity following the death of Sue Rodriguez. MP Svemd Robinson introduced a bill in the House of Commons to legalize physician assisted suicide. Bill C-215 would amend s.241 of the Criminal code to read: “No qualified medical practitioner commits an offence where the practitioner aids a terminally ill person to commit suicide a) at the request of and with [...]
Number of abortions performed : 43,113 Average number of abortions per day: 118 Number of abortions performed on girls 16 years or younger: 1,769 Facility which performs most abortions: Toronto Morgentaler Clinic (5,854) Number of abortions performed at the four Toronto clinics: 12,806
The 1989 abortion statistics, made public April 3, were the worst ever – over 79,000 abortions in Canada. This figure includes the thousands performed in’ clinics’ inside Quebec, but not in those of the rest of Canada, not those done in U.S. border cities. When will the plague stop? One simple answer is, “When doctors stop performing abortions!” When will that be? [...]
On March 21, 1991, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a baby who died in the process of being born was not a “legal person” and therefore could not be counted as a human being. The Supreme Court judgment in the midwives case was welcomed by representatives of radical feminist groups. “It’s a good decision …consistent with the Women’s equality,” said [...]