France has just become the first country in the world to constitutionalize a guaranteed right to an abortion.
In a landslide 780-72 vote the French Parliament voted to amend their constitution to guarantee the freedom to an abortion for women.
Abortions have been accessible across Canada for many years, however there is no mention of reproductive rights anywhere within the Canadian constitution. After the states overturned Roe. v. Wade, and with some Conservative MPs expressing anti-abortion views, there has been a growing fear that accessibility may go away.
“I do fear Canada will follow in the United States footsteps because we’re so close and I do think this can cause a lot of problems with women’s accessibility to this right.” says Emma Morris, a former pre-health student here at Fanshawe.
Abortions in Canada are protected by a 1988 Supreme Court Ruling in which the court decided that any law that restricted a woman’s right to life, liberty, and security of person was a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. However, our neighbors to the south’s abortion freedom was also once protected by a Supreme Court Ruling.
“Everyone should have access to this” Morris says. “It’s a way safer option to have it legalized for everybody.”
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