Cathay Wagantall's Bill C-233 (the Sex Selective Abortion Act) will have its second hour of debate in the House of Commons on May 28, and the vote will be held June 2, 2021.

"Sex-selective abortion is the practice of aborting a fetus once the gender has been determined. Usually, the purpose of the procedure is to abort the fetus if it is a girl and keep it if it is a boy."

The private member’s bill was brought forward by Cathay Wagantall, the Conservative MP for Yorkton-Melville.

Cloverdale-Langley City MP Tamara Jansen says, “Bill C-233 in no way changes the status quo with respect to access to abortion in Canada,” Jansen said. “It simply asserts that men and women are equally valuable, and therefore if a woman decides she wants to have a baby, the sex of the baby cannot be a reason to end the pregnancy.”

If passed, the bill would amend the criminal code to make it an offence for a medical practitioner to perform an abortion knowing the abortion is sought solely on the ground of the child’s genetic sex.

Jennifer O’Connell, the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Health said, “Ninety per cent of abortions that take place in the country are within the first 12 weeks of the pregnancy when we cannot even determine sex,” said O’Connell. “This is just another example of Conservatives who just recently got together to strategize on how to create backdoor anti-abortion legislation.” (Aldergrove Star)

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