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Oct 29, 2020 · Some staff at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights were told not to talk about pregnancy or abortion, in addition to censoring LGBT content, during some tours involving religious schools,...
- No Constitutional Right
- 'Intensive Process'
- 'Transpose It to Abortion'
That's because, technically speaking, no Supreme Court in Canada has ever said in a majority decision that a woman has the constitutional right to an abortion, said Daphne Gilbert, a University of Ottawa law professor who specializes in criminal and constitutional law. Scrapping Roe v. Wade would mean that, in regards to abortion, Canada and the U....
"It was often a pretty time-intensive process and also a pretty harrowing process. You were subject, sometimes, to interviews and questions about the reason why you were having an abortion," explained Roxanne Mykitiuk, a disability and bioethics law professor at York University's Osgoode Hall. The approval process at the time was also inconsistent ...
For example, she pointed to the court's decision about medically assisted dying: "You could almost transpose it to abortion." "The things that they talk about — about the importance of decision-making, control, bodily autonomy, your right to choose how you live your life — if the question had been abortion, it would have been exactly the same," she...
Jul 12, 2020 · The Canadian Museum For Human Rights and its morals have been questioned recently as numerous Black and Indigenous current and former employees shared stories of racism, discrimination...
Jun 28, 2022 · Abortion has been legal in Canada since 1988, when the Supreme Court decided in R. v. Morgentaler that a law that criminalized abortion was unconstitutional.
Mar 1, 2024 · On November 8, 2023, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) held a landmark hearing on the human rights violations caused by the reversal of Roe v. Wade and the move to ban abortion in the United States.
May 6, 2022 · There is a renewed conversation about abortion accessibility and rights for women in Canada after U.S. Supreme Court justices overturned the Roe v. Wade case on Friday, allowing states to...
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights ( CMHR; French: Musée canadien pour les droits de la personne) is a Canadian Crown corporation and national museum located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, adjacent to The Forks.
