Canada has zero pro-choice Conservative MPs, watchdog says

Source: The Guardian

Canada has zero pro-choice Conservative MPs, watchdog says

Abortion rights group places remaining 15 Conservatives on list of anti-choice MPs after vote on ‘fetal rights’ bill

Tracey Lindeman in Ottawa
Thu 3 Aug 2023 13.30 BST
Last modified on Thu 3 Aug 2023 15.10 BST

A vote on a controversial bill meant to expand “fetal rights” in Canada has left the country without a single pro-choice Conservative MP, according to an abortion watchdog organization.

This week, the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC) placed the last remaining 15 Conservatives on its list of anti-choice MPs after they voted in support of Bill C-311, dubbed the Violence Against Pregnant Women Act.

The bill sought to allow the courts to consider a victim’s pregnancy as an aggravating circumstance in sentencing for violent crimes.

ARCC’s executive director, Joyce Arthur, said the private member’s bill was a thinly veiled attempt to encroach on Canada’s longstanding view that fetuses do not have personhood status.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/03/canada-abortion-rights-pregnancy

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