MONTREAL — A 42-year-old pregnant woman says she will be at Montreal's international airport Tuesday morning where she is to be deported to her native Guinea, even though she fears for her life and that of her unborn baby.

Sayon Camara Sow will leave Canada despite last-ditch attempts by her husband and supporters to keep her in the country.

Camara Sow begged Immigration Minister Jason Kenney Monday to step in and allow her to stay in Canada until her baby is born.

"I want the minister to help me to stay here, beside my husband," an emotional Camara Sow said. "I'm sick, I'm pregnant and I'm afraid that at my age, I may lose my baby."

Sow is 24 weeks pregnant, has Type 2 diabetes and had a miscarriage last year.

She is being followed by a high-risk pregnancy clinic at Montreal's Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital. Dr. Fanny Hersson-Edery said Camara Sow will not have access in Guinea to the kind of medical care required for a high-risk pregnancy.

Her lawyer, Stewart Istvanffy said Camara Sow's life and that of her baby are at risk if she is returned to Guinea.

"We hope this situation will upset Canadians and they'll let our government know we shouldn't be treating a pregnant woman that way," he said.

Neither Camara Sow nor her husband have family in Guinea, located in Western Africa, for her to live with. Hersson-Edery said she also can't afford to buy in Guinea the insulin she needs for her diabetes.

Staff at Kenney's office said the file is in the hands of the Canada Border Services Agency. A spokesman for CBSA said people are only deported once all their legal avenues have been exhausted.

Camara Sow fled an abusive husband, now deceased, in 2006. She said her uncle married her off as a third wife to a rich man who beat her, sexually assaulted her, and cut her face with a razor blade.