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Vol. 80/No. 13 April 4, 2016
Prince Edward Island: Defend women's right to abortion
Some 60 supporters of women's right to choose abortion marched through
the streets of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, March 8 in an
International Women's Day protest against the lack of abortion services.
Many wore red pigtails like those of the island's famed fictional
character Anne of Green Gables. Prince Edward Island is the only
province in Canada that does not provide surgical abortions. The
island's health system covers abortions at hospitals in neighboring New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia, forcing many women to pay travel expenses.
Some doctors on the island provide chemical abortions, but only in the
first two months of pregnancy.
"It is time for our equality rights to matter. PEI's discriminatory and
unlawful abortion policy must end," said Dr. Colleen MacQuarrie,
co-chair of Abortion Access Now PEI, in a Jan. 5 statement giving 90
days' notice of her group's intent to challenge the policy in court.
— FRANÇOIS BRADETTE
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