how 'wedgie' is Scheer framing anti-abortion messaging as free-speech? ... cause why would that kind of anti-abortion messaging from anti-abortion groups present any kind of threat to a woman's reproductive rights in Canada, hey!
on edit: please refrain from diddling with my choice of the word, "rights"
Trudeau is an authoritarian jerk on the issue, sorry. He believes his virtue is more important than the Charter. A woman's ability to have an abortion does not negate any Canadian's rights, as explicitly laid out in the Charter, to: freedom of conscience and religion, freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression.
Abortion is not mentioned in the Charter, there is no "right to abortion" in Canada. There are simply no laws at all either way on abortion:
There is nothing in the wording of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to indicate a constitutional right to abortion. And although claims are often made that the Supreme Court of Canada recognized a constitutional right to abortion in its 1988 Morgentaler decision,1 that is an incorrect understanding of what the Court decided.
As Osgoode Hall Law Professor Shelley A.M. Gavigan wrote in an essay published shortly after the 1988 decision, “The Supreme Court’s decision, profound as it was, did not create a right to abortion for Canadian women, nor did it offer any resolution of the abortion issue.”
None of the seven judges held that there was a constitutional right to abortion on demand. All of the judges acknowledged the state has a legitimate interest in protecting the unborn. Even Madam Justice Wilson, who rendered the most liberal opinion in favour of a woman’s rights, advocated an approach to abortion that would balance those rights with the state’s interest in protecting the unborn.
http://www.morgentalerdecision.ca/charter-right-to-abortion/
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