By bringing back abortion issue, government risks rankling Liberal MPs

Even as they have accepted Trudeau's edict on abortion rights, not all government MPs are overjoyed at the notion of having to fall in line on a vote on the issue. They will comply, albeit with a heavy heart.

Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, pictured last year, introduced last week Bill C-39, to get rid of sections of the Criminal Code that remain on the books after having been struck down by the courts, including one on abortion.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

March 15, 2017

MONTREAL—Depending on how one looks at it, former prime minister Kim Campbell is either the last federal minister to have tried to recriminalize abortion in Canada or the first to have conceded that the federal government had to leave women free to choose whether to carry a pregnancy to term. As ...

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