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Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer appears to be backtracking on a campaign commitment to stop efforts to reopen the abortion debate, with a Conservative MP allowed to introduce a bill seeking to ban abortions for the purpose of choosing a child’s sex.

Saskatchewan MP Cathay Wagantall put forward the proposed law Wednesday, saying it reflects Canada’s commitment to gender equality.

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“It is true that the majority of Canadians agree with having access to abortions,” she said. “It is also true that 84 per cent of Canadians stand against sex-selection abortions.”

There is evidence suggesting women in Canada are sometimes choosing to terminate pregnancies based on the fetus’s sex.

A 2016 paper in the Canadian Medical Association Journal found in some communities, women who became pregnant after having an abortion were more likely to give birth to a boy, odds that rose even higher if the woman already had daughters. Using data from Ontario, the researchers found the correlation pronounced in women who had been born in India.