NEWS RELEASE
October
23, 2003
For
Immediate Release
BREITKREUZ
ASKS PARLIAMENT FOR A “WOMAN’S RIGHT TO KNOW ACT”
“This
Act would guarantee women are fully informed of all the risks before deciding to
abort their baby.”
Ottawa –
Three weeks after Garry Breitkreuz’s pro-life Motion M-83 was defeated in
Parliament (full details below), he was right back with a new motion, M-482
calling on the government to introduce a bill entitled the Woman’s Right to
Know Act. “The
majority of MPs in the House that night refused to support my motion calling for
the Health Committee to study all the risks women take by having an abortion so
the next logical step was to make sure that laws are in place to guarantee women
are fully informed of all the risks by their doctors before they decide to abort
their baby,” said the Saskatchewan MP.
Breitkreuz’s
Motion M-482 states: That, in the opinion of
this House, the government should introduce a bill entitled “Woman’s Right
to Know Act” that would guarantee that all women considering an abortion would
be given complete information by their physician about all the risks of the
procedure before being referred for an abortion, and provide penalties for
physicians who perform an abortion without the informed consent of the mother or
perform an abortion that is not medically necessary for the purpose of
maintaining health, preventing disease or diagnosing or treating an injury,
illness or disability in accordance with the Canada Health Act.
“The only way we can guarantee that women are fully
informed of all the risks of having an abortion is to have appropriate penalties
in the Act for any abortion provider that performs an abortion without the
informed consent,” explained Breitkreuz.
“The Act should also provide appropriate penalties for any doctor who
performs an abortion that is not medically necessary as defined by the Canada
Health Act.”
“Doctors perform more than 100,000 abortions a year
in Canada and many women only learn about the risks after they are suffering
with the side effects such as increased risk of: breast cancer, suicide,
infertility, psychiatric problems, uterine perforations, pelvic inflammatory
disease, and increase in pre-term and/or low birth-weight babies which increases
risk of disability such as cerebral palsy.
Every one of these women have a right to know and that’s why Canadian
women need a Women’s Right to Know Act,” concluded Breitkreuz.
MPs
DEFEAT MOTION VITAL TO THE HEALTH OF WOMEN CONTEMPLATING ABORTION
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/breitkreuzgpress/abort12.htm
HOW
MPs VOTED OR DIDN’T VOTE ON M-83
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/Article185.htm
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