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There is no abortion law in Canada, but provincial and territorial health regulations and professional bodies restrict the procedure to various grounds or gestational limits. There are also significant disparities between rural and urban access to abortion. [7] [8] Region Gestational limits [8] # of providers [8] Notes Alberta: 20 weeks: 5
The Abortion Caravan paved the way for future abortion activism as well as helped initiate a revocation of abortion laws in 1988. [3] At the time of the abortion caravan there were also a number of anti-abortion organizations who wished to eliminate access to abortions in Canada. [ 4 ]
Borowski v Canada (AG), [1989] 1 S.C.R. 342 is the leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on mootness of an appealed legal issue. The Court declined to decide whether the fetus had a right to life under sections 7 and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms .
The new law made several changes to existing abortion laws in the state of Nevada, including decriminalizing the performing of abortion procedures, and removing informed consent laws that said doctors needed to tell women of the "emotional implications" of having an abortion and what women should do after the procedure to avoid post-op ...
Abortion has existed since ancient times, with natural abortifacients being found amongst a wide variety of tribal people and in most written sources. The earliest known records of abortion techniques and general reproductive regulation date as far back as 2700 BC in China, and 1550 BC in Egypt. [6]
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January 28 – Canada's abortion laws are repealed by the Supreme Court. March 19 – Jacques Parizeau becomes leader of the Parti Québécois. May – HMCS Halifax, the first Halifax-class frigate, is launched in Saint John, New Brunswick. May 9 – Gary Filmon becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Howard Pawley.
The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC) is a Canadian abortion rights organization which was founded in 2005. Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia , it is currently the only political group in Canada which is engaged in pro- abortion rights activism on a national level.