With British Columbians heading to the polls Saturday, there’s one issue every major party has been happy to avoid. OneBC isn’t one of them.

The underdog party released a bold policy pledging to defund elective abortions in the third trimester of pregnancy.

OneBC is showing leadership again on the issue of vital importance. pic.twitter.com/XEBcx9GIpr

— Dallas Brodie (@Dallas_Brodie) October 17, 2026

“I realize that this is a very sensitive issue, but the majority of Canadians do not believe that pregnancy should be terminated in the third trimester of pregnancy. This has been proven in poll after poll. It’s time to say something,” Brodie said.

In a press release, the party says it would end provincial funding for elective abortions “from 28 weeks until birth,” while keeping funding when “serious complications threaten the mother’s life or health, or severe fetal complications require medical intervention.” It also promises to “increase funding for pregnancy care centres across BC.”

“When an issue like this is this controversial, we believe that the taxpayers in British Columbia shouldn’t be paying for it,” said Brodie, after acknowledging that the federal government sets what’s legal regarding abortion.

Canada is one of the few countries with no legal limit on abortion at any stage of pregnancy. In practice, clinics offer the procedure up to about 24 weeks, and later cases require specialized referral, according to Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights.

B.C. taxpayers fund abortion through MSP and PharmaCare. There were 13,068 abortions in the province in 2024, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, but CIHI does not track how many of them were late-term.

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After laying out what taxpayers shouldn’t pay for, OneBC told Rebel News what it would fund instead.

“We would want to provide direct financial support for pregnancy centres that serve both expecting mothers and new moms with resources both social and material, as many of these centres already do,” the party said in an email statement.

Centres like these have had a tough road in B.C. In 2018, vandals splashed red paint and profanity across the storefront of the Vancouver Crisis Pregnancy Centre on Main Street, and police investigated it as a hate crime. Days after OneBC’s pledge, the charity that originally ran that centre lost its charitable status after a period of inactivity.

Pregnancy centres that help moms and their babies have also spent years in Ottawa’s crosshairs. In 2018, Justin Trudeau’s government made groups applying for Canada Summer Jobs grants attest to supporting “reproductive rights,” and pro-life and faith groups that wouldn’t tick the box were denied. The next year, Ottawa ruled 26 applicants ineligible over the issue, including some pregnancy centres, according to The Globe and Mail.

PRO-LIFE: Hundreds gathered yesterday in front of the B.C. Legislature for speeches at the annual nationwide March 4 Life.

Canada has some of the world’s most controversial death laws, including no criminal law restricting abortion at any stage of pregnancy, and plans to expand… pic.twitter.com/b4bFLkrZa5

— Drea Humphrey (@DreaHumphrey) May 15, 2026

In 2021, the Liberals campaigned on stripping charitable status from anti-abortion groups they accused of “dishonest counselling.” In 2024, they proposed tax changes that would have forced pregnancy-counselling charities to disclose whether they refer for abortion or birth control, or risk losing their status.

Internal emails Rebel News obtained through access to information show the CRA began brainstorming how best to carry out the Trudeau Liberals’ pledge before the 2021 election was even over, flagging “compliance considerations” and “considerations at registration” for “the anti-abortion item.”

For now, however, the Carney government appears to have shelved the plan. Last month, Women and Gender Equality Canada told the Investigative Journalism Foundation it has no plans to follow through.

Asked what it would do if pregnancy centres start losing their federal charitable status for arbitrary reasons, OneBC said it “would be willing to look into any way the provincial government could advocate on behalf of these organizations or provide an alternative way to give out tax credits.”