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Who killed 19-year-old Canadian Rheanna Laderoute?

Photo: Rheanna Laderoute/GoFundMe

Those who knew Rheanna Laderoute best described her as kind, clever, and feisty. The blonde haired 19-year-old Ontario girl was treasured by her family and friends for being caring and having a heart of gold. Her friends always appreciated how Rheanna championed the underdog and had an offbeat sense of humour that kept them on their toes. They loved her cleverness in making silly sound effects and imitating voices.

All of this tragically came to an end on February 24, 2022, when Rheanna died in the intensive care unit of Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, Ontario. While Rheanna’s obituary and a fundraising page for funeral expenses provide no hint as to what caused her death, a detailed account of what happened was recently published by The Globe and Mail

In January 2022, Rheanna and her boyfriend discovered that she was pregnant. Rheanna kept the matter hidden from her family. At the end of January, she secretly drove an hour away from her home to a women’s health clinic in Brampton, Ontario, where she was prescribed the abortion pill Mifegymiso. A Google search reveals that the Brampton Women’s Clinic offers the abortion pill in that same city and describes it as allowing a woman to “have an abortion in the comfort and privacy of their own home.” It describes the abortion pill as working “safely.” 

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Read the remainder of this article at Western Standard here.

 

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