Selena Ross, Lillian Roy, CTVNewsMontreal.ca
July 4, 2022
A group of Quebec doctors has successfully pushed for a big change to how abortions are given in the province, widening access to abortions by medication.
Until now, Quebec has required patients to have ultrasounds before obtaining the two-pill regimen that induces a medical abortion.
Mandatory training for physicians reduces access to medical abortions, critics say
Antoni Nerestant · CBC News
Jun 30, 2022
Quebecers looking to terminate their pregnancy can do so by way of medication, but experts say the rules in the province around access to the abortion pill are too restrictive, and they want the option to be more widely available.
Access to the pill is more strictly controlled in Quebec than in the rest of Canada, with physicians in the province required to have a certain level of training for medical abortions before accompanying a patient through the process.
Continued: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/abortion-pill-medical-procedure-college-physicians-1.6505665
Abortion-pill inequality: How access varies widely across Canada
Two years after Canadians got access to Mifegymiso, some regions have seen thousands of prescriptions, but others have had hardly any, according to figures obtained by The Globe and Mail. The numbers point to deeply rooted problems in regional abortion care
Carly Week
October 12, 2018
Women’s health advocates have hailed the abortion pill as the key to eliminating barriers to abortion in Canada because it can be prescribed by a family doctor and taken at home, no matter where a woman lives. Yet, nearly two years after Mifegymiso became available, many women still have to travel to abortion clinics, endure lengthy waits and pay out-of-pocket if they want to use it to end their pregnancies.
Prescribing data provided to The Globe and Mail show large regional disparities in access to the abortion pill, which the World Health Organization says is a safe and effective method of terminating pregnancies in the first nine weeks. In Manitoba, where nearly 4,000 abortions are performed every year, no prescriptions for Mifegymiso have been dispensed from retail pharmacies since it came on the market, according to the data. But in Ontario, which has about 40,000 abortions every year, more than 6,600 prescriptions were dispensed last year and this year, up to August, 2018.
Late abortion in low-risk pregnancy against McGill University Health Centre values, ethics committee ruled
By Salimah Shivji, Benjamin Shingler, CBC News.
Posted: Dec 20, 2016
A Montreal woman says she had to fight for a late-term abortion after the McGill University Health Centre's ethics committee blocked her request, raising questions about access to the procedure in Quebec.
The woman was in her third trimester, 30 weeks pregnant, when she and her partner found out there were abnormalities with the fetus.
After numerous tests at different hospitals, she decided she'd rather have an abortion, but the MUHC refused.
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Source: CBC.ca
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