TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned Saturday that the U.S. Supreme Courtroom resolution to overturn a constitutional proper to abortion might result in the lack of different rights and indicated his nation would proceed to permit People to get abortions in Canada.
Trudeau known as the court docket’s resolution “horrific” and voiced concern that the ruling might sometime permit a rollback of authorized protections for homosexual relationships, together with the fitting for same-sex {couples} to marry.
“We all know that that is a particularly, not simply scary, however disheartening time for therefore many ladies,” Trudeau mentioned at a information convention in Kigali, Rwanda, on the Commonwealth Heads of Authorities Assembly.
“Girls for generations have fought for extra rights in the US, (solely) to see this setback, to fret as effectively about how this may be expanded to extra rights be taken away in the US,” he mentioned.
“It is a reminder of how we should be unequivocal in our protection of individuals’s rights, in not taking something as a right, in staying vigilant, and at all times standing up for lady’s rights, for LBGT rights, for the rights of people who find themselves disenfranchised and marginalized,” he added.
Requested if his authorities would assist American ladies searching for abortions in Canada, Trudeau didn’t immediately reply, however mentioned: “On a regular basis People who discover themselves in Canada entry our well being care system in Canada and that’s actually one thing that can proceed,”
Nonetheless the associated fee, the necessity to journey and to have a passport make that prohibitive for some People.
The ruling is more likely to result in abortion bans in roughly half of American states.
13 states, primarily within the South and Midwest, already had legal guidelines to ban abortion within the occasion Roe was overturned. One other half-dozen states have near-total bans or prohibitions after six weeks, earlier than many ladies know they’re pregnant.
Trudeau vowed to proceed to face up for lady’s rights within the U.S. and elsewhere.
“We’ve a dedication in Canada to make sure, to begin with, that each ladies has full, secure authorized entry to the total suite of sexual well being and reproductive providers, together with secure and authorized abortions and we’ve been working arduous to extend entry to ladies throughout the nation,” Trudeau mentioned.
