The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that only the woman could make the choice; the man had no legal say in a woman's choice to terminate a pregnancy or carry it to completion. Daigle had already had a late second-term abortion before the Court ruled on her case.
Henry Morgentaler and two colleagues (Dr. Leslie Frank Smoling and Dr. Robert Scott) set up a clinic in Toronto to perform abortions for women who had not ...
The federal government, using the criminal law power, had legislated that abortions approved by a therapeutic abortion committee would not be subject to the ...
It was also amended to include a judicially-enforceable Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This amendment gave the Supreme Court of Canada a power of judicial ...
The Court stated the following constitutional questions: 1. Does section 251 of the Criminal Code of Canada infringe or deny the rights and freedoms guaranteed ...
The 1988 R v Morgentaler decision1 is often seen as the turning point for abortion rights in Canada, though it did not explicitly find abortion to be a ...
Mar 27, 2017 · Four months after celebrating the 25th anniversary of his historic win at the Supreme Court of Canada, Dr. Henry Morgentaler has died of a ...
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Canada currently has no law regarding abortion; it is treated like other medical procedures and regulated through provincial/territorial and professional ...
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Jun 24, 2022 · Before this Court, petitioners defend the Act on the grounds that Roe and Casey were wrongly decided and that the Act is constitutional because ...
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Jun 24, 2022 · Prime Minister Justin Trudeau weighed in Friday on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn decades-old jurisprudence on abortion, ...