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A History of Abortion in Canada: The Quest for Women's Reproductive Rights. Margaret Burnett, MD. Download PDF. M. Burnett. When the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) came into being, both abortion and contraception were criminal offenses in Canada.
- A HISTORY OF WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IN CANADA
Canada is one of the few countries in the world where...
- A HISTORY OF WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IN CANADA
Wade sparked immediate questions about whether a similar retrenchment of abortion rights could occur in Canada. Key legal, structural, and political cultural factors mitigate the forces of American-style erosion of norms on the Supreme Court of Canada and in our broader politics surrounding abortion rights.
Canada is one of the few countries in the world where termination of pregnancy is not illegal. Abortion rates are now amongst the lowest anywhere and are decreasing. With improved access to better contraception, unsafe abortion has been virtually eliminated.
academic books that have examined abortion in Canada recently (see Half-mann 2011; Haussman 2005) are studies whose main goal is to outline the comparative history and the differences in institutional influence on abortion policy and access in Canada, the US and other countries. While
DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION In 1976, Canada became bound by the United Nations’ International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This cove-nant stated that each individual has the right to liberty and security of person. This same principle was incorporated into the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and later
4 Αυγ 2022 · A recent public opinion poll reveals that 46 per cent of Canadians think that the situation concerning abortion in the US will have an impact in Canada (Leger, 2022). We have already seen evidence of this, as some political parties have confirmed support for a woman’s right to choose, while others have asked members not to discuss abortion at ...
Based on a rigorous qualitative and quantitative analysis of the public discourse of a wide variety of influential actors, this study shows that contemporary anti-abortion discourse in Canada is quite different than the portrait offered by traditional accounts.
