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Image – Shutterstock In a significant setback for Quebec’s pro‑life movement, the province’s Superior Court has refused to overturn a law banning protests and sidewalk counselling within 50 metres of abortion clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies. This buffer‑zone legislation, enacted in 2016, remains firmly in effect. The Quebec Life Coalition and other…
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This is a move which can only be seen as a direct attack on the value of disabled lives.
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A professor of health law has warned that assisted suicide in Canada has increasingly “prioritized access over protection”. Trudo Lemmens is a professor of health law and policy at the University of Toronto. He is also a member of the Chief Coroner on Ontario MAiD Death Review Committee. While Professor…
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A Canadian man who was injured in a workplace accident, and then denied surgery, which he begged for, has been granted Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) on request. “Today I received a photo and post from a Dr friend of mine, who pointed out the most wild case of MAiD…
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A UN committee has called for the repeal of assisted suicide in Canada for people who have no terminal illnesses, especially the disabled which, a report concluded, is discriminatory towards disability. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Committee published its report last month and recommended…
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A man from Ontario, Canada has been found guilty of murdering his pregnant girlfriend who refused to abort their unborn child. Wazhir Gafoor was found guilty of first-degree murder this month in a case of abortion coercion. The body of his girlfriend, Christina Yadram, was found in woodland in 2021,…
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His message to Scots comes as Scotland considers similar legislation: “I believe my own experience is a cautionary tale of how well-intended laws go very wrong.”
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SPUC has warned that MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill could be expanded within just five years, and veterans suffering from PTSD could be threatened, as has already happened in Canada.
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One in four babies are born alive following abortions at 23 weeks gestation, a study published in a peer-reviewed journal has found, showing that such cases are more common than previously supposed.