The head of the Canadian bishops’ conference has criticised Canada’s foreign minister for saying that abortion rights are a cornerstone of the nation’s foreign policy.
In a speech to the Canadian House of Commons, foreign affairs minister Chrystia Freeland equated women’s rights with a right to abortion and claimed these rights “are at the core of Canadian foreign policy”.
In a letter to the foreign minister, Bishop Douglas Crosby of Hamilton, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, expressed “profound concern” over the speech, denouncing it as “erroneous, confusing and misguided”.
