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Women's Group Feel Threatened By Canada's Abortion Policies
"It's a threat we've been feeling for months," said Patricia LaRue, executive director for Canadians for Choice, a pro-choice group based in Ottawa.
"We feel that sexual and reproductive health is not really a priority (for the government)," LaRue told AFP.
At issue are several private member bills dealing with abortion in Canada.
One bill introduced last month would make it a criminal offence to "coerce" a woman into having an abortion. The proposed legislation was introduced by pro-life Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge, after a man in Winnipeg tried to force his girlfriend, Roxanne Fernando, into having an abortion in 2007. When she refused, her boyfriend murdered her.
The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC) said the problem of coercion does not occur on a grand scale, and that bill C-510 "should be scuttled in favour of a bill prohibiting the much more common practice of coercing a women into childbirth."
Another bill, C-484, which was approved in April in a second parliamentary reading, makes it a criminal offense for someone to attack a woman with the intent of killing her unborn child.
Proponents say the bill is designed to close a gap in the criminal code, but opponents say it is another attempt to give legal status to the fetus, recriminalize abortions, and open the door to restricting access to the procedure.
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