believed in the rights of the women and women's needs. The Canadian values of the nineteenth century witnessed "Abortion [being] made illegal, under the threat of life imprisonment," and in 1982, "Parliament [enacted] the first Criminal Code, which prohibits abortion and the sale, distribution, and advertisement of contraception" (Rodman, p. 173-174). The morals demonstrated during the time period from the late eighteen-sixties to the early nineteen-seventies, were very conservative and many of the individual's beliefs and values were based around the church and religious respect for life. The laws that were enforced displayed the values of the time period prior to the 1970s, which showed the taking of a life was not allowable under any circumstances with the severe deterrent of a life imprisonment sentence. Although there were valid reasons against legalized abortion, such as the fetus has the same right to life as the parent making the decision to have and abortion, there were advocates for legalizing this procedure for the safety of all women because between 1926 and 1947 "4,000 to 6,000 Canadian women [died] as a result of bungled illegal abortio
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