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Every girl deserves a chance at life.

Sex selective abortion is wrong. The majority of Canadians agree that using abortion for sex selection is wrong, yet Canada’s lack of abortion laws allows this practice to continue. Girls are aborted at a higher rate than boys simply because they are girls. In a country that claims to value equality, this is unacceptable. Standing up for the equal rights of women includes standing up for their right to be born. On June 2, 2021, Parliament voted against the Sex Selective Abortive Act (Bill C-233) in a vote of 248 – 82. That means the bill will not be studied by a committee or become law, and girls will continue to be aborted for simply being girls.

It is time for Parliament to take a stand by making sex selective abortion illegal. Get involved to end this practice in Canada.

“Sexism within society is huge, and the question of sex-selection for birth is huge, and I think that’s a conversation that has certainly begun in this country, but needs to continue to happen.”
– Clinical Ethicist Kerry Bowman

Community Conversations

Letters to the editor are a great way to spread the word that sex selective abortion is happening in Canada, and needs to be banned. Write a short letter (around 150 words) to your local paper informing your community about the discrimination inherent in sex selective abortion.

Sex selection is already illegal in IVF

It is illegal to choose which embryos to implant during in vitro fertilization (IVF) based on sex. The Assisted Human Reproduction Act recognizes the danger of sex selection, and has banned it for IVF patients. Yet that same embryo can implant, grow, and then be aborted based on its sex. When a pregnancy with multiples results from IVF, one or more pre-born children is sometimes eliminated based on sex.

We need an abortion law that is in line with our assisted reproduction law - a law that says a child cannot be aborted because of his or her sex.

Thank you for using your voice!




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