In a note dated July 10, 2002, Min...

In a note dated July 10, 2002, Minister of Justice Martin Cauchon accorded to questions which Campaign Life Coalition President Jim Hughes has raised concerning the Criminal digest provision that a child does not become a human being until it has completely make headwayed from its mother's body. He wrote:

"Any change in the definition of a human being in the Criminal digest could have the effect of criminalizing abortion. ...It is the Government's position that it will not introduce legislation to criminalize abortion."

The absence of a criminal law forward abortion, he claimed, does not mean that a