Canada – Survey finds support for status quo on abortion access, but programs warn about challenges

Thia James
Oct 13, 2022 

The latest Taking the Pulse survey in Saskatchewan found 32.7 per cent of respondents believe abortion access is “good the way it is,” while 27.8 per cent believe it should be easier to access. Another seven per cent said they believe abortions are “too easily accessed” and 11.8 per cent said they believe there should be no abortions.

Saskatoon Sexual Health executive director Caitlin Cottrell is open about the barriers she faced in the past when she had to get a medically necessary pharmacological abortion due to an anembryonic pregnancy, where a fertilized egg implants but no embryo develops.

Continued: https://thestarphoenix.com/news/local-news/taking-the-pulse-survey-finds-support-for-status-quo-on-abortion-access-but-programs-warn-about-challenges


Saskatchewan doctors now compensated for providing abortion pill

By Mickey Djuric  The Canadian Press
Posted October 10, 2021

REGINA – Saskatchewan became the last province in Canada to bring in universal coverage for the abortion pill and two years later the province is finally paying doctors who provide it.

On Oct. 1, the province started offering a billing code for physicians who offer Mifegymiso, which terminates early pregnancy up to nine weeks.

Continued: https://globalnews.ca/news/8256744/saskatchewan-doctors-now-compensated-for-providing-abortion-pill/


Canada – U of S faces backlash for non-medical placements at pregnancy centre that encourages ‘gift of life’

U of S says placement options are 'not an endorsement of any organization'

Yasmine Ghania · CBC News
Posted: Jul 06, 2021

The University of Saskatchewan college of medicine is receiving backlash for offering medical students the choice to do a placement at the Saskatoon Pregnancy Options Centre (SPOC) — an organization that says it hopes "clients will choose the gift of life."

The non-medical placement is part of the community and workplace centred
learning experience module in a second-year class titled "Medicine in
Society."

Continued: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/usask-backlash-placement-non-medical-pregnancy-1.6090861


The sorry state of abortion access in Saskatchewan

The sorry state of abortion access in Saskatchewan

Sask Dispatch, by Sara Birrell
Sep 5, 2019

It has been more than 30 years since the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R. v. Morgentaler found Canada’s anti-abortion laws to be such an egregious overreach of state power that they violate Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the right to “life, liberty, and security of the person.” Since then, under the law, abortion has been treated as what it is: a morally and ethically neutral medical treatment. But while the decision ostensibly means that any pregnant person should be able to access medical (that is, induced by a drug) or surgical abortions at any time, the nature of the Canadian health-care system, which puts control of services in the hands of the provinces, means that abortion care is a patchwork that leaves many pregnant Canadians – especially those who are poor, Indigenous, young, or in rural and remote communities – to endure unwanted pregnancies.

Continued: https://briarpatchmagazine.com/saskdispatch/view/the-sorry-state-of-abortion-access-in-saskatchewan