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| - | ====== PBP110H: Opportunities for Political Activism on Pre-Born Human Rights ====== | ||
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| - | This is based on notes from the second half of André Schouten' | ||
| - | ===== Federal Abortion Laws ===== | ||
| - | * Personhood amendments, e.g. Stephen Woodworth' | ||
| - | * WNAL 2015 Life Tour highlighted three main areas for progress | ||
| - | * Pre-Born Victims of Crime | ||
| - | * Late-term abortion bans | ||
| - | * sex-selective abortion | ||
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| - | ===== Provincial Abortion Laws ===== | ||
| - | * difference between federal and provincial | ||
| - | * in the US, States can create both criminal law and health regulations | ||
| - | * in Canada, the federal government creates criminal law, but health is a provincial issue | ||
| - | * Trivia: | ||
| - | * Number of pro-life laws passed: US 2012 43; US 2011 92; Canada since 1988: 1 | ||
| - | * no criminal law passed | ||
| - | * New Brunswick: slipped into larger laws, abortions have to be in hospitals, not in private clinics (specifically designed to get Morgentaler out) | ||
| - | * law was tossed out for infringing on criminal law jurisdiction (~1993) | ||
| - | * There is a lot of room in the provinces to make new laws | ||
| - | * provider requirements | ||
| - | * abortion clinic regulations | ||
| - | * regulate as surgical centres | ||
| - | * require licenses | ||
| - | * require physicians only | ||
| - | * Informed Consent | ||
| - | * risks of procedure, gestational age of child, information re: breast cancer / mental health / risks in future pregnancies | ||
| - | * " | ||
| - | * ultrasound requirement (almost more effective than laws in deterring women from abortions, vans in US) | ||
| - | * fetal pain | ||
| - | * independent counselling requirement (people who counsel women to have abortions are also the ones who gain financially from women saying yes?) | ||
| - | * coercion signage and signing requirement | ||
| - | * Parental Rights | ||
| - | * Parental notice for 16 and under | ||
| - | * Reporting | ||
| - | * Accurate reporting requirements of all surgical and nonsurgical abortions | ||
| - | * Proper statistics on gestational age of all surgical abortions | ||
| - | * [missed] | ||
| - | * CIHI: e.g. half of the gestational ages are missing | ||
| - | * Conscience Rights | ||
| - | * law to protect all health workers (nurses, doctors, etc.) who object to any anti-life procedure | ||
| - | * law to protect institutions which object to anti-life procedures (i.e. Catholic hospitals, etc.) | ||
| - | * Funding | ||
| - | * Defund Abortion campaign | ||
| - | * Crisis Pregnancy Centres... get nothing | ||
| - | * Why might it be important to pursue provincial laws? | ||
| - | * Joyce Arthur: " | ||