Foetus ‘not a person’
NZPA-Reuter Vancouver A Canadian court has ruled that a foetus is not a
person until it has completely finished leaving the mother’s body alive. The British Columbia Court of Appeal made the ruling in overturning a conviction of criminal
negligence causing death against two midwives.
The court said the midwives were wrongly convicted of the charge involving a foetus, which died of lack of oxygen
before it emerged from its mother during birth in 1985.
It upheld a second conviction against the midwives, Gloria Lemay and Mary Sullivan, on charges of criminal negligence causing bodily harm to the mother.
Canadian Government policy on abortions has
been under review since the Supreme Court ruled last January that previous legislation was unconstitu-
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