In an unprecedented move, Dr. Morgentaler’s supporters have decided to catalogue past rejections and spur a public debate about why one of Canada’s iconic figures has never received its highest honour…
reads a Globe article.
Open the debate? That’s something pro-lifers have wanted for years. Sounds good to me.
When we discussed the Morgentaler decision on The Agenda the other night, Andre Picard said he was “pragmatic” about abortion. That was fine, until he published this.
Maybe pragmatic means he only uses plain pom-poms, not the metallic, glittery ones.
As the late Madam Justice Bertha Wilson wrote in the judgment, a woman has a right to continue or terminate a pregnancy, free of state interference
Hello incomplete reporting in this Globe article today. Justice Wilson was the only justice to say that. One of seven. It wasn’t the majority view, although, thanks to reports like this, many Canadians think it was the majority view. What we need to know about the Morgentaler case is this:
The court was not asked whether or not the Charter recognizes a constitutional right to abortion and therefore has not rendered an opinion on this specific question.