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Morgentaler's first name
Who is Henry?
Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: freedom of conscience and religion.
What is Section 2(a) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
The ruling of the SCC decision.
What is 5-2?
Anti-abortion laws prevent this from occurring.
What are unsafe abortions?
The maximum sentence of performing an abortion in Canada, 1969.
What is lifetime imprisonment?
The means in which Morgentaler was acquitted from his first trial.
What is jury nullification?
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.
What is Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada during the trial.
Who is Chief Justice Dickson?
The right to governance of our own bodies.
What is bodily autonomy?
Morgentaler survived this horrific genocide.
What is the Holocaust?
This province gave up arresting Morgentaler.
What is Quebec?
Everyone has the right not to be subjected to any cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.
What is Section 12 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
Beetz J. and Etsey J. said this about the requirements for abortions.
This novel takes place in an anti-abortion society.
What is The Handmaid's Tale?
Morgentaler had abortion clinics in these three Canadian cities.
What are Montreal, Winnipeg and Toronto?
Added to the constitution in 1982 and affected the results of Morgentaler's 4th Trial.
What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
Every female person who, being pregnant, with intent to procure her own miscarriage, uses any means or permits any means to be used for the purpose of carrying out her intention is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.
What is Section 251(d) of the Criminal Code?
Only Wilson J. argued that S. 251 of the criminal code was against this section in the Charter.
What is section 2(a) "freedom of conscience"?
This act bans abortions in Alabama.
What is the Human Life Protection Act?
Morgentaler's colleagues in his clinics.
Who are Dr. Leslie Frank Smoling and Dr. Robert Scott?
The year of Morgentaler's original arrest.
What is 1973?
Everyone is protected from criminal responsibility for performing a surgical operation on any person for the benefit of that person if it is reasonable to perform the operation, having regard to the state of health of the person at the time the operation is performed and to all the circumstances of the case.
What is Section 45(b) of the Criminal Code?
These judges dissented on the verdict.
Who are McIntyre J. and La Forest J.?
This Canadian province doesn't cover abortions in healthcare.
What is New Brunswick?
The date of Morgentaler's passing.
What is May 29th, 2013?