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Abortion in Canada is legal throughout pregnancy and is publicly funded as a medical procedure under the combined effects of the federal Canada Health Act and provincial health-care systems. [1] However, access to services and resources varies by region. [2]
This right has generated significant case law, as abortion in Canada was legalized in R v Morgentaler (1988) after the Supreme Court found the Therapeutic Abortion Committees breached women's security of person by threatening their health. Some judges also felt control of the body was a right within security of the person, breached by the ...
R v Morgentaler, [1988] 1 SCR 30 was a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada which held that the abortion provision in the Criminal Code was unconstitutional because it violated women's rights under section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ("Charter") to security of the person.
R v Morgentaler [2] was a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada invalidating a provincial attempt to regulate abortions in Canada.This followed the 1988 decision R. v. Morgentaler, which had struck down the federal abortion law as a breach of section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Abortion laws vary widely among countries and territories, and have changed over time. ... including in Canada, most European countries and China. [44]
With Roe v. Wade overturned, some people may have to travel to get an abortion. See where it's legal and banned.
The jail would not clarify whether that could include transportation to states where abortion is legal. A 2020 census of abortion clinics, conducted by the reproductive rights group the Guttmacher ...
Morgentaler v R (also known as Morgentaler v The Queen) is a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada where physician Henry Morgentaler unsuccessfully challenged the prohibition of abortion in Canada under the federal Criminal Code. The Court found the abortion law was appropriately passed by Parliament under the laws of federalism.