TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned Saturday that the U.S. Supreme Court docket choice to overturn a constitutional proper to abortion may result in the lack of different rights and indicated his nation would proceed to permit Individuals to get abortions in Canada.
Trudeau known as the courtroom’s choice “horrific” and voiced concern that the ruling may sometime permit a rollback of authorized protections for homosexual relationships, together with the precise for same-sex couples to marry.
“We all know that that is a particularly, not simply scary, however disheartening time for thus many ladies,” Trudeau mentioned at a information convention in Kigali, Rwanda, on the Commonwealth Heads of Authorities Assembly.
“Girls for generations have fought for extra rights in the USA, (solely) to see this setback, to fret as properly about how this may be expanded to extra rights be taken away in the USA,” he mentioned.
“This can be a reminder of how we must be unequivocal in our protection of individuals’s rights, in not taking something as a right, in staying vigilant, and at all times standing up for lady’s rights, for LBGT rights, for the rights of people who find themselves disenfranchised and marginalized,” he added.
Requested if his authorities would assist American girls searching for abortions in Canada, Trudeau didn't straight reply, however mentioned: “On a regular basis Individuals who discover themselves in Canada entry our well being care system in Canada and that’s actually one thing that can proceed,”
Nonetheless the price, the necessity to journey and to have a passport make that prohibitive for some Individuals.
The ruling is more likely to result in abortion bans in roughly half of American states.
13 states, primarily within the South and Midwest, already had legal guidelines to ban abortion within the occasion Roe was overturned. One other half-dozen states have near-total bans or prohibitions after six weeks, earlier than many ladies know they're pregnant.
Trudeau vowed to proceed to face up for lady’s rights within the U.S. and elsewhere.
“We now have a dedication in Canada to make sure, initially, that each girls has full, protected authorized entry to the total suite of sexual well being and reproductive providers, together with protected and authorized abortions and we’ve been working onerous to extend entry to girls throughout the nation,” Trudeau mentioned.
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