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The anti-abortion movement in Canada is represented by the Catholic Church, Prolife Alberta, [115] The Wilberforce Project, [116] Campaign Life Coalition, REAL Women of Canada, We Need A Law, [117] Abortion in Canada, [118] Action Life (Ottawa), Inc., [119] among other organizations.
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 ...
Morgentaler v R (also known as Morgentaler v The Queen) is a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada where physician Henry Morgentaler unsuccessfully challenged the prohibition of abortion in Canada under the federal Criminal Code. The Court found the abortion law was appropriately passed by Parliament under the laws of federalism.
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.
R v Morgentaler, [1988] 1 SCR 30 was a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada which held that the abortion provision in the Criminal Code was unconstitutional because it violated women's rights under section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ("Charter") to security of the person.
Political movements soon coalesced around the legalization of abortion and liberalization of existing laws. By the first half of the 20th century, many countries had begun to liberalize abortion laws, at least when performed to protect the woman's life and in some cases on the woman's request.
With Roe v. Wade overturned, some people may have to travel to get an abortion. See where it's legal and banned.
This category pertains to historical, current, and proposed abortion law in Canada. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. C.
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