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   Published Thursday, May 8, 2014   
      
   NDP MPs will never vote against a woman’s right to choose, says the   
   party’s leader Thomas Mulcair, who is also making clear that   
   anti-abortion candidates are not welcome to run for the party.   
      
   Mulcair made the comments after a speech in Quebec on Thursday. He was   
   asked by a reporter whether his party “writes off” voters who are   
   anti-abortion, thousands of whom were on Parliament Hill Thursday at the   
   annual March For Life.   
      
   The NDP believes that “it’s not debatable, it’s not negotiable, it is a   
   woman’s right to determine her own health questions and her own   
   reproductive choices,” Mulcair said.   
      
   The NDP caucus will never include MPs who are anti-choice, he added.   
      
   “In the NDP, no MP is ever going to vote against the woman’s right to   
   choose. No one will be allowed to run for the NDP if they don’t believe   
   that it is a right in our society for women to make their own choices on   
   their reproductive health. Period.”   
      
   On Wednesday, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said his party will not   
   accept anti-abortion candidates, although current Liberal MPs who are   
   anti-abortion can remain in caucus, he said.   
      
   “It is not for any government to legislate what a woman chooses to do   
   with her body, and that is the bottom line,” Trudeau told reporters on   
   Parliament Hill.   
      
   After Trudeau made his announcement, Toronto-area Liberal MP John McKay,   
   who is anti-abortion, told CTV’s Power Play that every MP has   
   “difficulties with his or her party from time to time, and I guess this   
   is my day.”   
      
   His views are well-known on Parliament Hill, he said, adding that he   
   “errs on the side of life” in the case of a fetus, as well as when   
   considering issues such as end-of-life care and capital punishment.   
      
   McKay, who has been the MP for the riding of Scarborough-Guildwood since   
   1997, has already secured the Liberal nomination for the 2015 election.   
   Under Trudeau’s new policy, McKay will be allowed to run again as a Liberal.   
      
   Alissa Golob, the youth co-ordinator of the Campaign Life Coalition who   
   was in Ottawa Thursday for the annual March for Life rally, told CTV’s   
   Power Play she’s not surprised by Mulcair’s statement because the NDP   
   “have always been the enemy of the pro-life movement.”   
      
   But Golob said it’s “shocking” to her that Trudeau is “forcing his   
   caucus to completely ignore logic and science and abide by the gospel   
   according to Justin.   
      
   “He says on one hand that he welcomes voices of all different points of   
   view, but on the other hand he says: ‘except half the country who   
   disagrees with abortion.’”   
      
   Joyce Arthur of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada disagreed,   
   saying that the vast majority of Canadians support keeping abortion legal.   
      
   Arthur said barring anti-abortion candidates is a “great move” for the   
   Liberals, “a natural progression of a party that respects human rights.”   
      
   Because making abortion illegal would infringe on women’s fundamental   
   Charter rights, “this debate is long over,” Arthur told Power Play.   
      
   “We really should not be talking about it, at least not in Parliament.”   
      
   Meanwhile, thousands of people, and several Conservative MPs, gathered   
   on Parliament Hill for the annual March for Life.   
      
   While the annual demonstration is peaceful, pro-choice protesters tried   
   to disrupt the event, some shouting “my body, my rules.”   
      
      
      
   Read more:   
   http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/no-anti-abortion-candidates-allow   
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