Roxanne’s Law, a Canadian bill seeking to ban abortion coercion, will be voted on in the House of Commons today (December 15) after Question Period. It’s expected around 3:15 est.
Pro-life groups have rallied behind the bill, hoping to get it passed so it will be sent to committee where the language can be tightened up.
The bill is fundamentally about protecting the choice of those women who decide to keep their babies. It should gain support from any MP claiming to be “pro-choice”, and not merely the pro-life MPs.
Nevertheless, pro-abort MPs have tried to find other reasons to oppose it, as we would expect. They claim, for example, that coercion is already covered under the Criminal Code. But pro-lifers have pointed out that while abortion coercion may technically be covered, the Code’s obviously not doing its job because no one has ever been charged with abortion coercion.
You can watch the vote on CPAC here.