Martin Patriquin: Canada needs a new abortion law

As an unabashed pro-choice Quebecer, whose province was an early home to unfettered abortion access, gay rights activism and assisted suicide, among other bugaboos of the social conservative movement, let me say this: The Campaign Life Coalition finally got something right.
Last week at the Conservative convention in Halifax, supporters of Canada’s largest anti-abortion group introduced a motion that would have struck down the party’s pledge to “not support any legislation to r