From this sheet, it indicates that Canada has the most liberal abortion law on Earth, and is one of the few places abortion is legal anytime during pregnancy. What do babblers think?

Here are a few examples:

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EUROPE - The legal abortion period is 10 weeks in France, Greece, Denmark, Norway and Portugal, 12 weeks in Germany, Belgium and Austria and 22 to 24 weeks in Britain, Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Malta, Ireland and Poland still have highly restrictive abortion laws.

MUSLIM COUNTRIES - Islam bans the abortion of a living fetus, but some countries like Syria allow abortion in cases where there is a pressing medical need, such as a danger to the mother's health.

ISRAEL - A woman may terminate a pregnancy if she is not married, or if the pregnancy is the outcome of rape or poses health risks. Abortions are also allowed for women younger than 17 or older than 40.

CANADA - Abortion has been legal, for any reason at any time up to delivery, since the Supreme Court struck down an anti-abortion law in 1988.

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G: From this sheet, it indicates that Canada has the most liberal abortion law on Earth, and is one of the few places abortion is legal anytime during pregnancy. What do babblers think?

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Reuters: MUSLIM COUNTRIES - Islam bans the abortion of a living fetus ...

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This is simply false and misleading. It confuses Muslim countries with the religion itself, just as some people confuse Israel with the Jewish religion ...

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As Islamic scholar Azizah al-Hibri says, "The majority of Muslim scholars permit abortion, although they differ on the stage of fetal development beyond which it becomes prohibited." After 120 days, abortion is permissible only to save the mother's life, where the pregnancy is harming an already suckling child, or when it is known that the fetus is malformed. Though the various schools of Islam differ on the time in which an abortion is permitted, al-Hibri says all "permit abortion for exigencies such as saving the mother's life."

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USA Today: Where does God stand on abortion?

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Originally posted by N.Beltov:

I think there is no abortion law in Canada, which is a good thing, but you seem to have managed to miss that small point. In fact, writing about a "liberal" abortion law is sort of misleading, isn't it, Ghislaine?

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Conservative Party members of Parliament must have been the first surprised to see the Liberals help their fellow Ken Epp's C-484 private bill comfortably pass 2nd reading in Parliament six weeks ago. Now, other opponents of choice are happily crawling out of the woodwork.
Another good reason to vote the Conservatives out of office if the Opposition can ever get its act together...

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(OTTAWA, April 16, 2008) - Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott (Saskatoon-Wanuskewin) today re-introduced a Private Member's Bill that would "prohibit coercion in medical procedures that offend a person's religion or belief that human life is inviolable. The bill seeks to ensure that health care providers will never be forced to participate against their will in procedures such as abortions or acts of euthanasia".

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A former pastor, MP Vellacott is a long-time foe of women's reproductive rights, GLBT rights, the Court Challenges program and other irritants to
arch-Conservatives, such as the "God-like powers" of Canadian judges (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Vellacott)

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223. (1) A child becomes a human being within the meaning of this Act when it has completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother, whether or not

(a) it has breathed;

(b) it has an independent circulation; or

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(...)“the state of the law indicates that the first rule in right-to-life issues is that a fetus is not a human being until it is out of the womb, has drawn its first breath, and is deemed living and viable.”(...) (in "Actions an Anti-Choice Government Can Take to Limit Your Access to Reproductive Health Service? A REPORT CARD", ACPD)

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223. (1) A child becomes a human being within the meaning of this Act when it has completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother, whether or not

(a) it has breathed;

(b) it has an independent circulation; or

(c) the navel string is severed.

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Well that's interesting - so according to this, a "child" is NOT a "human being" before it is born.

I guess that explains this part of Bill C-484:

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(5) It is not a defence to a charge under this section that the child is not a human being.

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CANADA - Abortion has been legal, for any reason at any time up to delivery, since the Supreme Court struck down an anti-abortion law in 1988.

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Gab, my understanding is that we have no abortion laws.

The issue is with access, and with having doctors who are willing to perform the procedure.

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More than 13 years after the law criminalizing abortion in Canada was struck down and despite its status as a medically necessary service, access to abortion is becoming more and more restricted across the country. "Ironically, it seems to be getting worse rather than better since the Morgentaler decision in 1988," says Marilyn Wilson, executive director of the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League in Ottawa. "There are a number of barriers and the [number is increasing]."

On Jan. 28, 1988, the Supreme Court struck down the Criminal Code section that made it a criminal activity to perform an abortion, a section that had been used repeatedly to charge Dr. Henry Morgentaler. Three years later, a bill passed in the House of Commons to recriminalize abortion but was defeated in the Senate. Since then, there has been no federal abortion law and no legal restrictions against the procedure.

In theory, this means that a woman can legally obtain an abortion anywhere, but the continued lobbying by churches, antiabortion groups and some political parties, as well as the actions of extremists to create a climate of fear for abortion providers, means that obtaining an abortion has become increasingly difficult. The availability of abortions in Canada now depends on a woman's location and the size of her pocketbook.

"There are huge discrepancies in the availability of reproductive services, including abortion, from province to province and, of course, within provinces," says Martha Jackman, a constitutional law professor at the University of Ottawa. "I can't think of another medically necessary service that is so inaccessible."

Abortion services in Canada: a patchwork quilt with many holes

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Canada is one of the very few countries in the world that has NO criminal law restricting abortion at all. We first liberalized our law against abortion in 1969; then our Supreme Court threw it out completely in 1988. And we've been doing just fine without it. In the 11 years since we began our great experiment, we've found that doctors and women exercise the right to abortion responsibly, without the need for any legal restrictions.

Abortion in Canada: History, Law, and Access

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