On Sept. 26, MPs were free to vote their conscience on M-312, a private member's motion that called for a House of Commons committee to study the Criminal Code and its definition of when a fetus ...

In response to Woodworth's ill-fated 2012 attempt to set up a special House committee to study the Criminal Code definition of ... proposal to condemn sex-selective abortion.

OTTAWA—The Conservative cabinet minister responsible for championing the rights of women is taking heat from pro-choice supporters for voting in favour of a motion to study the Criminal Code ...

Selective abortion is also done when there are too many foetuses in a pregnancy. A different sort of selective abortion occurs when the pregnancy involves several foetuses, and unless one or more ...

While the skewed sex ratio is improving slightly, India still has more sons than daughters; sex selective abortion and even female infanticide is to blame. Many were quick to claim that supporting ...

Mr. Warawa said he has no plans to reopen a debate on abortion and believes condemnation of sex selection could serve an educational purpose. The motion is expected to come up for debate next spring.

Pro-life activists are taking aim at sex-selective abortions—but that’s merely a Trojan horse, to help them curtail access to abortion services in Canada A young girl participates in the March ...

We should also recognize the discriminatory attitudes that can lead to selective abortion in our own country. There has never been a better time to be born with Down syndrome, medically ...

Yes, you could object to the abortion on religious or other grounds, but not using the argument that it is a product of cultural oppression. Gruesome as it may be, sex-selective abortion falls ...

Why? Sarah Ditum suggested in the New Statesman on September 7 that the campaign against sex-selective abortion is a cynical effort to take choice away from pregnant women. The day before ...

In other words, the head of Americans United for Life believes a 10-year-old impregnated by a rapist should be allowed to get an abortion — because under her preferred definition, that abortion ...

Sort of. Asked why she was one of 10 Conservative cabinet ministers who supported backbench MP Stephen Woodworth’s motion to strike a committee to examine the definition of a human being ...