MONTREAL—Chanting “Motherhood a choice, abortion a right” more than 2,000 people took to the streets here September 28 to defend abortion rights. The Quebec Women’s Federation and Quebec Planned Parenthood called the action in collaboration with other women’s organizations and Quebec’s three main union federations.

The theme of the action was “No more C-484s, we don’t play with the rights of women.” Law C-484 died on September 7 when Conservative prime minister Steven Harper called a federal election for October 14. The bill would have opened the door to giving legal rights to fetuses. Abortion was decriminalized by Canada’s Supreme Court in 1988.

— BEVERLY BERNARDO