OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Canada’s top pro-life group reminded a pro-abortion Liberal MP that there is no official “right” to abortion in the country after the MP claimed the Conservative Party was trying to impose a “ban.”
“Today, I stand up in the House of Commons to defend woman’s right to choose, while Conservative MPs are playing footsie with the far-right who wants to ban the right to have an abortion,” Liberal MP Soraya Martinez Ferrada wrote Tuesday on X.
Martinez Ferrada then shared a video clip of her speaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday, when she accused Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leader Pierre Poilievre of allowing some MPs to promote pro-life messages. She claimed that Poilievre needed to “control” the MPs and tell the House he supports women’s “right” to abortion.
The Liberal MP’s X post was blasted by Campaign Life Coalition (CLC).
“Dear MP Martinez Ferrada, Your facts are wrong here. First of all, there exists no court-defined or Charter right to abortion in Canada,” CLC communications director Pete Baklinski said Wednesday in reply to Martinez Ferrada’s post.
Baklinski reminded the MP that abortion was first decriminalized in 1969, but before that, “committing an abortion was a crime (homicide) under the Criminal Code.”
“In the 1988 R. v. Morgentaler case, the Supreme Court of Canada made its landmark decision to throw out the 1969 abortion law on the basis that it was ‘unconstitutional,’ ruling that the law’s detailed criteria for obtaining an abortion violated a woman’s Charter right to ‘security of the person.’ Neither the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms nor the Supreme Court of Canada established a right to abortion,” Baklinski wrote.
Baklinski observed that Canada’s Supreme Court tasked Parliament, due to the 1988 case, to create a new law to “balance the rights of the preborn baby alongside the rights of the mother.’”
“This has yet to happen. Abortion in Canada still persists in a legal vacuum to this day, leaving the pre-born with no legal protection. Justice demands that the preborn be recognized for the human beings that they are and that they be afforded the same rights as every other human being, the first and most important of which is the right to life.”
Baklinski then said directly to Martinez Ferrada that “the future of Canada is pro-life.”
He observed Thursday on X that what Martinez Ferrada is really “saying” while speaking in favor of abortion is “you stood up in the House of Commons to defend a mother killing her preborn child.”
“You stood up to defend the stronger destroying the weaker, the protected annihilating the vulnerable, the adult eliminating the child,” he wrote.
“This is not something to be proud of. This is not ‘progress.’ This is not about ‘rights.’ Abortion is the direct and intentional killing of a preborn human being. It is the greatest injustice happening today. One day, it will be universally recognized for the evil that it truly is – and it will be banned.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has professed his support for abortion despite being a baptized Catholic. Since taking office in 2015, his Liberal government has championed pro-abortion policies such as stripping pregnancy resource centers of their charitable status for promoting life instead of abortion.
Despite multiple Liberal MPs’ claim that Conservatives seek to enact laws restricting abortion, and the fact that several Conservative MPs are indeed pro-life, the truth remains that the current Conservative leader is staunchly in favor of abortion and aligns with the Trudeau government on the matter.
Poilievre has a poor track record on issues of life and family, with CLC giving him a “red light” rating.
According to CLC, abortion has killed over four million preborn babies in Canada since its legalization in 1969, which is roughly equivalent to the population of Alberta.