League asks Ontario to lift secrecy on abortion stats

TORONTO, August 24, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League has asked Deb Matthews, Ontario’s Minister of Health and Long Term Care, to allow requests about abortion data in Ontario under the province’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FIPPA)...

Sex selection a consequence of legal void on abortion, says CCRL

TORONTO, ON April 18, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on new reports that the selective abortion of females is happening in Canada among ethnic groups where boys are preferred. An editorial in the Journal of the Canadian Medical Association in...

Canadian attitudes don’t match legal vacuum on abortion

OTTAWA, ON November 1, 2011(CCRL) – The annual poll by Life Canada has found that most Canadians want some legal protection for the unborn, and in general do not support public funding of most abortions. In results released yesterday, seventy-two percent of Canadians...

Better knowledge of lack of abortion law needed, says League

TORONTO, August 4, 2010 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on a new survey showing that as many as two-thirds of Canadians do not know that Canada has no abortion law. The Angus Reid poll, which asked 1,022 Canadian adults a variety of questions about...

League supports Bill seeking to end abortion coercion

OTTAWA, April 15, 2010 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today expressed support for a private member’s bill (PMB) introduced Wednesday by MP Rod Bruinooge (Winnipeg-South) that would make it a criminal offence for anyone to coerce a woman to terminate her...