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The People's Party of Canada supports banning abortion in Canada after 24 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for cases in which the life of the pregnant individual is in danger, serious fetal abnormalities, and when the pregnancy is a result of rape. [101]
Bas relief at Angkor Wat, c. 1150, depicting a demon performing an abortion upon a woman who has been sent to the underworld. The Vedic and smrti laws of India reflected a concern with preserving the male seed of the three upper castes; and the religious courts imposed various penances for the woman or excommunication for a priest who provided an abortion. [3]
The aim of CARAL was to legalize abortion in Canada. To accomplish their aim, they supported Dr. Henry Morgentaler's challenge of the 1969 abortion law, which required the approval of a hospital's Therapeutic Abortion Committee (TAC) before an abortion could be legally performed (without requiring TACs to be formed or to meet). Fewer than one ...
At the time of the abortion caravan there were also a number of anti-abortion organizations who wished to eliminate access to abortions in Canada. [4] To this day, there are abortion rights and anti-abortion organizations working to promote their positions, including Action Canada's celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1970 Abortion Caravan.
Abortion: Stories from North and South is a Canadian documentary film directed by Gail Singer and produced by Studio D, the women's unit of the National Film Board of Canada. The film is a cross-cultural survey filmed in Ireland, Japan, Thailand, Peru, Colombia, and Canada that depicts the realities women face in accessing medical abortion ...
R v Morgentaler [2] was a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada invalidating a provincial attempt to regulate abortions in Canada.This followed the 1988 decision R. v. Morgentaler, which had struck down the federal abortion law as a breach of section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The abortion trial of Emily Stowe was a famous early Canadian judicial decision on abortion in Canada. The case involved Dr. Emily Stowe , one of Canada's first female doctors . Stowe was acquitted, which was a rare outcome for abortion trials in the nineteenth century.
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