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Whoa, whoa, whoa, the Liberals said. Let’s talk about this first. Let’s talk about this a lot.

“We are encouraged by the change of heart from the PC caucus and their newfound support of a woman’s right to choose,” Naqvi’s press secretary Kyle Richardson wrote in a mass email Thursday. “However, the bill was only introduced yesterday and while we will advocate for swift passage, we believe that health-care professionals, women’s groups and other advocates should have the opportunity to review the bill and provide input to strengthen the bill during the committee process.”

These would be the people Naqvi had thanked Wednesday for all the help they’d given in drafting up the superb bill he presented.

“I want to thank the advocates,” he’d said. “They worked with us in the summer, very hard. We’ve had many, many conversations to get this right.”

Catherine Macnab, the executive director of Planned Parenthood Ottawa, said Thursday she’s really happy with the bill as written.

She has some questions about how it will establish bubble zones without publicizing every place where abortions are performed, and she hesitated to say anything about what might happen to the law in the unfamiliar Queen’s Park committee process. But overall, well, “If it could be turned into law today, I’d be thrilled.”

Yasir Naqvi is the attorney general, the Ottawa Centre MPP and, as it happens, the government house leader, responsible for shepherding government bills through Queen’s Park. This is a truly cosmic confluence of responsibilities: It is his job in three separate ways to get this law passed.

He’d summoned up angry tears the day before, recounting the story of a woman who was spat on outside The Morgentaler Clinic on Bank Street. For a moment, he could barely speak.