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Thursday, June 05, 2003 by: Xiao Feng Huang (Charles) World Issues can be defined as any issues that affects globally, world issues are almost always inter-connected with all aspects of life. One of the most controversial issues included the topic of abortion; this issue is inter-connected with nearly all aspects of life, including different array of perspective interpretations of life, political, human rights, religious, and moral. For example: since abortion was legalized in Canada, nearly every week there is something in the local newspaper that debates about abortion, whether it be the fetal rights or the rights of women. Many see this topic as a just a local political issue since abortion, since it falls into the provincial health jurisdiction. However, other sees what we outlaw in our province will watched by various religious groups, and human rights activist worldwide, because of its complexity and different interpretations of life. Abortion is considered extremely political sensitive, since it involves the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and which clearly states that every citizen are entitled to equal fundamental rights and freedoms. In other words our civil liberties had given all women the rights to abortion. At same time many politicians have passionately debated that abortion should be banned under Section 7 of our Charter, since it clearly stated that “that no individual shall be deprived of life, liberty or security of person”. Their perception of a fetus is that of a life, and aborting the fetus is exactly same as deprived of life, rights to a life and liberty. In the other hand the abortion ban would create lots of controversies, since the pro-choice activist debated that if abortion was banned, the women would have lost control of their body since they are force into giving an unwanted birth.
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