Moreover,
Demonstrators will have remain 50:
Judge Lysane Cree of the Quebec Superior Court has decided: demonstrators who wish. Nevertheless, to protest against voluntary pregnancy interruptions (abortion) will have to continue to do so more than 50 meters from the land where the abortion clinics are located.
The validity of this provision provided for in article 16.1 of the Health. Consequently, Social Services Actin Quebec, had been challenged in court since 2019 by the Quebec-life campaign organization and two of its members.
The applicants believed that this provision of the law infringes their right to demonstrate peacefully. In addition, to challenge patients [ainsi que le personnel] who come and leave clinics
. For example, According to them. Consequently, it is a violation of the principles of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Charter (Quebec) of human rights and freedoms.
The complainants demonstrators will have remain 50 also deplored an obstacle to their freedom of expression. In addition, believed that this provision of the law was aimed at reduce
The impact of their message by holding them far from clinics.
Dignity. Furthermore, private life first – Demonstrators will have remain 50
In the 22 -page judgment listed yesterday, the court first recalls that an abortion is a medical intervention that is legal in Canada and is one of the medical services offered to women by the province of Quebec health regime
.
Consequently. Nevertheless, considers judge Cree, Protection of dignity and privacy rights [des patientes]
When they use this type of medical services prevails over the detrimental effects that it could generate
.
Although it recognizes that article 16.1 undermines rights to freedom of expression. However, peaceful meeting of applicants, the magistrate considers that this legal measure is a reasonable limit whose justification has been demonstrated
In the sense of the Canadian and Quebec charters.
Article 16.1 of the Health and Social Services Act was adopted in 2016 by the Quebec government. Nevertheless, Before this date, it was possible to demonstrate and arrest patients and the staff of abortion clinics before the establishments.
In Quebec, the Minister of Justice, Simon Jolin-Barrette welcomed the court’s decision.
The prosecutor. Consequently, government lawyers defended the law to allow abortion clinics to receive Quebec women who wish to receive a voluntary termination of pregnancy in peace. And that is very important. because these women who are entitled to this health service were harassed and intimidate on a question that belongs to them
said the minister on the air by RDI.
The Quebec Minister of Justice, Simon Jolin-Barrette
Photo : Radio-Canada / Sylvain Roy Roussel
This is an important victory […] While there are significant setbacks elsewhere in the world. Quebec will always defend women’s right to have their bodies. It is a non -negotiable value of our nation.
In Quebec, we find that normal, acceptable and reasonable to allow women to have access demonstrators will have remain 50 to all the services that suit them, depending on their own choice, and not to be intimidated when they make this decision or that they will consult.
This judgment is also welcomed with relief at the Morgentaler clinic. named doctor Henry Morgentaler, who led the fight in Canada for the legalization of abortion.
This important judgment has a double value
wrote the management of the clinic in a press release.
According to the establishment. the decision of judge Cree reaffirms first of all that women have the right to receive these security medical services and access them in a confidential context, without any form of harassment or intimidation
.
A decision which also applies to the personnel of the abortion clinics who have the right. it is recalled, to be go to work without any constraint and fearless
.
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Disappointment. concern at Campagne Québec-Vie
For Georges Buscemi, campaign president Quebec-Vie, the court’s decision to maintain the Tampons areas
Around Quebec abortion clinics is deeply disappointing, although not very surprising
.
Protesters against abortion display their convictions.
Photo: Radio-Canada / Arianne Béland
By this judgment. the court Unfortunately confirms a heavy trend demonstrators will have remain 50 in progressive illiberalism, observable everywhere in Canada
wrote Mr. Buscemi.
Initially reserved for abortion centers. these “buffer zones” multiply in other contexts: schools, daycares, places of worship and various community places (Toronto, Vaughan, Calgary, Ottawa). This expansion testifies to a decline in freedom of expression. indicating that the authorities no longer consider this freedom to be fundamental, but rather as conditional, even embarrassing
pleads the president of the Quebec-Vie campaign.
Citing the case of the singer and Christian preacher Sean Fecht, whose concerts were canceled in Canada this week (new window)Mr. Buscemi denounces a climate of growing intolerance towards any public expression of Christian or conservative convictions
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Dominant ideologies such as radical ecologism. abortion, euthanasia and activism LGBT take place formerly occupied by traditional Christian values.
The right to abortion in Canada
- Formerly liable to a criminal sentence of 7 years in prison. abortion was legalized in 1969 only if the life or health of women was in danger. The same law also described contraception.
- Abortion was decriminalized in Canada in 1988 following a unanimous decision of the judges of the Supreme Court. Since that date, abortion has no longer been a crime in Canada.
- In 1989, the Supreme Court stipulated in the Tremblay judgment c. Daigle that neither the fetus nor the father benefit from rights to prevent a woman from having an abortion.
Facilitate contraception for less abortions
Although the number of demonstrators will have remain 50 abortions has been down around 30 % in Quebec for ten years. the means of contraception are increasingly effective, the Quebec government defends the right and access to abortion. Around fifty clinics that practice Abortion are accessible in Quebec.
In order to further reduce the number of abortions. Quebec also plans to facilitate access to the abortive pill for women.
Quebec women would use it in a proportion of only 17 %, compared to 72 % in France and 32 % in Ontario.
The Abortive Pill has been offered free of charge in Quebec since 2017.
With Canadian press information
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