Mr. Speaker, the petition notes that Canada is a nation that has long promoted the right to equal protection and equal benefits of the law and that preventing the birth of baby girls through sex-selective abortion is an affront to the dignity and equality of women and girls. They also note that sex-selective abortions have denied millions of girls in Canada and throughout the world the chance merely to be born because they are girls.
The petitioners are calling on the House of Commons and Parliament assembled to condemn discrimination against girls through sex-selective abortion and to do all it can to prevent sex-selective abortions being carried out in Canada.