Will the UCP’s scheme to restrict reproductive rights play in Ponoka? Maybe not … – Alberta Politics
Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party stirred up a hornet’s nest with this sneaky bill — disingenuously entitled the Conscience Rights (Health Care Providers) Protection Act. As a result, party propagandists were forced to play defence last week, sticking to the preposterous story the bill is really just a way to back up the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
In commentary typical of what appears to be the majority view in the LGBTQ community, Edmonton activist Kris Wells called Bill 207 “a blatant attack on human rights in Alberta” and argued “conscience rights are nothing more than a code word for legalized discrimination and will take Alberta back to the 1950s.”
He asked, in a thread that covers many of the key points
expressed by opponents of Bill 207 on social media: “What’s next? Denial
of housing, employment, and service based on race? gender? sexual
orientation?”