The World - News from Aug. 9, 1989

Canada’s Supreme Court unanimously struck down an injunction that had barred a 21-year-old woman from having an abortion, only hours after learning she had already gone through with the procedure. Daniel Bedard, the attorney for Chantal Daigle, asked the court to consider the case anyway, arguing that his client faced contempt charges. Daigle was appealing a Quebec court ruling upholding the injunction won by the woman’s former lover. For the first time in Canada, the Quebec court had ruled that the fetus is a human being entitled to the right to life under a provincial charter.