This week, Mike Pence made it clear: he would ban abortions when pregnancies aren’t viable. The former Vice President, now candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination, expanded on his anti-abortion position, which includes a federal ban at six weeks gestation, such as Iowa has now imposed, and outlawing the sale of mifepristone, an abortion...
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Does the promotion of anti-abortion views violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? The issue recently arose in the context of the Canada Summer Jobs Program, a federal program which funds businesses and organizations seeking to hire students over the summer break. In past years, some MPs, including Liberal Iqra Khalid and Conservative Rachael Harder,...
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Abortion. It’s the issue that all federal parties pledge not to touch. It keeps cropping up, though — especially when it’s politically useful. When Justin Trudeau became Liberal party leader in 2014, he used abortion to boost his female-friendly credentials by demanding party unanimity on the matter. “I have made it clear that future...
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This isn’t an argument they can win — and they’re out of time Those on the Right often criticize Liberals for pushing the envelope too fast on social change; “progressive” is considered such an awful epithet by the Conservatives that they dropped it from their own party’s name a decade ago. For the Left,...
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Has Donald Trump finally jumped the shark? His recent comments about punishing women who get illegal abortions not only caused a furor on both sides of the abortion debate (an achievement in itself), it confirmed what many voters fear: His policies amount to nothing more than scribbles on the back of a cocktail napkin....
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