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Canada: Prime Minister, MPs vote against ban on coerced abortion

By Alliance Alert

Montreal Gazette: "The House of Commons killed a private member's bill Wednesday that would have criminalized 'coercing' a woman into an abortion. Bill C-510, sponsored by anti-abortion Winnipeg Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge, would have criminalized forcing a woman into an abortion through threats of violence, withdrawal of financial resources or a place to live." LifeSiteNews: "Harper had opposed the bill since it was first introduced by Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge in April. The PM had said he 'will oppose any attempt to create a new abortion law.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on December 15, 2010 (boomark / email).