Birth
Control and Abortion
"Everyone
is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to two years imprisonment who
knowingly without lawful justification or excuse offers to sell, advertise,
publishes an advertisement or has for sale or disposal any means or
instructions or any medicine, drug or article intended or represented as a
means of preventing conception or of causing abortion or miscarriage."
Criminal Code of Canada, 1892
"There's no place for the state in the bedroom of the
nation."
Pierre E. Trudeau, defending a bill that amended the Criminal Code to legalize
birth control, decriminalize abortion under some circumstances and
decriminalize homosexual acts, 1969
"Abortion
is a decision between a woman, her doctor and God."
Ralph Klein, The Globe and Mail, 7 April 1995