Perusing my morning read, I read that Premier Jean Charest has told The Globe and Mail that “abortion is an inalienable right.”
That would be the same Jean Charest, by the way, who as an MP voted in favour of the Mulroney government’s abortion law that would have restricted this supposedly inalienable right.
Mr. Charest’s statement to The Globe came on the heels of a unanimous vote in Quebec’s National Assembly calling on the federal government to end its “ambiguity” on abortion.
For that, Quebec MNAs — whose own days these days are filled with allegations of corruption and such — will be able to turn to La Presse. There, a “reliable source” (meaning Dimitri Soudas is my guess) tells reporter Joel-Denis Bellavance:
“If a private members bill criminalizing abortion were tabled, it would be a party vote. So, all Conservative MPs would be required to vote against the bill. We never want such a bill to pass.”
Which goes beyond Mr. Soudas’s statement of the Harper government’s position as reported in The Globe and Mail article:
“The Prime Minister has consistently said throughout his political career, before we formed the government and even after, that our government will not initiate or support legislation that reopens the debate on abortion.”
