Sachdev P
School of Social Work, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Canada.
Med Law. 1994;13(1-2):1-9.
In January 1988 the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the country's archaic abortion law on the ground that it imposed arbitrary delays and unfair disparities in access to abortion across the country. Since then, the conservative government of Canada has made a few attempts to introduce a new abortion policy, but it did not get passed in the parliament because the revised bills failed to protect women's right to 'life, liberty, and security of the person' within the meaning of the Canadian Charter. Canada has been without an abortion law for over four years and there has been a wide range of provincial policies and confusion in the country. Despite the legal vacuum, Canadian women are not frenziedly having abortions. However, the militancy of the anti-abortion groups has steadily intensified with continued assault on a woman's right to make reproductive choices. Since no law, short of banning abortions altogether, is going to satisfy abortion opponents, the abortion battle will rage on in Canada.
1988年1月，加拿大最高法院废除了该国陈旧的堕胎法，理由是该法律在全国范围内造成了任意拖延以及获取堕胎服务方面的不公平差异。自那时起，加拿大保守党政府曾多次尝试推行新的堕胎政策，但这些政策在议会均未通过，因为修订后的法案未能在《加拿大宪章》意义范围内保护妇女的“生命、自由和人身安全”权利。加拿大已经四年多没有堕胎法了，国内存在各种各样的省级政策且情况混乱。尽管存在法律真空，但加拿大女性并没有疯狂地进行堕胎。然而，反堕胎组织的激进程度却在不断加剧，持续攻击女性做出生育选择的权利。由于除了完全禁止堕胎之外，没有任何法律能让堕胎反对者满意，堕胎之战将在加拿大继续激烈进行。
