Mon Apr 24, 2023 – 2:59 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court decision last Friday to, at least temporarily, continue allowing the use of the abortion pill mifepristone, a minister for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government announced that it would try to supply the dangerous drug to American women in the event that it is banned.
“… I think every Canadian woman should be following this [case] closely, because the playbook that we’re seeing in the United States, we can’t negate that that could happen here,” said Trudeau’s Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Karina Gould in a CTV News interview last Thursday when asked about the then-upcoming Supreme Court decision.
“We have to be vigilant about protecting our reproductive rights,” she added.
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After saying the Trudeau government will wait and see what happens, Gould confirmed that “we have certainly said that we would work to provide [abortion pills] for American women, should [a ban] happen in the United States.”
“What concerns me … is where you see laws in states where they’re actually criminalizing women cross[ing] state borders to access reproductive healthcare [sic],” the minister continued, adding
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