Leglslation to support
April 23, 2008
Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott has proposed (re-introduced, really) legislation that would grant freedom of conscience protection to healthcare workers opposed to abortion — i.e. a person can’t be compelled to perform or assist with an abortion if s/he has a religious and/or moral objection to the practice.
One would have thought this protection of conscience already existed in Canada, but evidently one would be incorrect in thinking that. Of course, that doesn’t really come as a surprise given that this is also the country which operate the “rights for me, but not for thee” human rights commissions that are the subject of so much controversy these days.
