TORONTO, November 13, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Leadership of the Association of Ontario Midwives is lobbying the Liberal government to change provincial laws so midwives can kill babies in utero as well as delivering them.
AOM president Elizabeth Brandeis told the CBC there’s “burgeoning interest” in midwives providing abortion “services.”
The idea has been on the association’s “radar” since the AOM was consulted by the attorney general’s office and health ministry on the Liberal bill banning pro-life witness outside abortion centers, Brandeis said.
The 800-member Association of Ontario Midwives has a “pro-choice position,” she said.
“We believe very strongly that reproductive rights, including a spectrum of choices around birthing, also encompass safe access to abortion care.”
And midwives all across Canada, not just in Ontario, want to be able to kill babies in utero, according to the CBC, which also gave Brandeis a platform on its national morning news show.
Katrina Kilroy, president of the Canadian Association of Midwives, said midwives already have the knowledge base to do medical abortions and could be trained to do vacuum aspirator abortions.
“This is not a contentious issue in the midwifery community,” she told CBC.
Abortion contentious, says pro-life midwives’
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