POLS 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Fetal Rights, Mootness, Fetus
15 Dec 2017
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After the end of the relationship, daigle wanted an abortion: daigle cited a desire to raise children in peaceful and stable circumstances, not in domestic abuse, an interest in never seeing tremblay again o. Concern for her own psychological health: these things are going to be ingrained in law as to why people can get abortions. Tremblay sought an injunction to halt the abortion o o. Said that the fetus is a person, similar to borowski. Tremblay defends the existence of this fetal right by saying that the fetus is indeed a person. Case reached the supreme court, but daigle left the province for the united sates to obtain an abortion: decision on a case that already happened. Nevertheless, the issue was considered important enough that the supreme court declined to set aside the case for the mootness. Fetus has no legal status in canada as a person: applicable to canadian common law and quebec civil law.
