In case this week was lacking anything

Conservative backbencher Rod Bruinooge introduces a bill that would make it illegal to "coerce" someone to have an abortion. The Prime Minister’s Office says it won’t support the legislation.

Mr. Bruinooge, who is chairman of the multiparty pro-life caucus on Parliament Hill, said his bill was not inconsistent with Mr. Harper’s stand. "This bill doesn’t affect gestational limits or access to abortion in Canada," he said. "It’s something that, in fact, doesn’t reopen the abortion debate. But it does make it a crime to threaten or intimidate a woman into an abortion."