The Daily Populous Monday June 27th, 2022 day edition
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Rwanda Commonwealth Summit via Associated Press

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned Saturday that the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn a constitutional right to abortion could lead to the loss of other rights and indicated his country would continue to allow Americans to get abortions in Canada.

Trudeau called the court’s decision “horrific” and voiced concern that the ruling could someday allow a rollback of legal protections for gay relationships, including the right for same-sex couples to marry.

“We know that this is an extremely, not just scary, but disheartening time for so many women,” Trudeau said at a news conference in Kigali, Rwanda, at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

“Women for generations have fought for more rights in the United States, (only) to see this setback, to worry as well about how this can be expanded to more rights be taken away in the United States,” he said.

“This is a reminder of how we need to be unequivocal in our defense of people’s rights, in not taking anything for granted, in staying vigilant, and always standing up for woman’s rights, for LBGT rights, for the rights of people who are disenfranchised and marginalized,” he added.

Asked if his government would help American women seeking abortions in Canada, Trudeau did not directly respond, but said: “Everyday Americans who find themselves in Canada access our health care system in Canada and that’s certainly something that will continue,”

However the cost, the need to travel and to have a passport make that prohibitive for some Americans.

The ruling is likely to lead to abortion bans in roughly half of American states.

Thirteen states, mainly in the South and Midwest, already had laws to ban abortion in the event Roe was overturned. Another half-dozen states have near-total bans or prohibitions after six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant.

Trudeau vowed to continue to stand up for woman’s rights in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Rupaulsdragrace420 on June 26th, 2022 at 23:10 UTC »

Minnesota will also still be a safe hub for people seeking abortion care. Unfortunately - I fear that they will be severely overwhelmed by their surrounding states. SD, ND, NE, IA and WI are all extremely likely or have already enacted legislation to make abortion care illegal.

This influx of patients will further backlog appointment scheduling, not to mention patients will be having to work much harder to arrange traveling further distances.

Rogahar on June 26th, 2022 at 22:26 UTC »

MA governor signed an EO minutes after the Supreme Court decision which protects the right to abortion in Mass and also prevents any government agency in the state from cooperating with other states' investigations into anybody who travels to Mass for reproductive health care procedures such as abortions.

I keep posting this lately but I figure getting out info of safe places is important right now.

Jokerang on June 26th, 2022 at 21:47 UTC »

This ought to be interesting. It's one thing for an attorney general of a red state to try to sue a blue state for this, it's another to try and stop a whole 'nother country.