Nov 7 2025
Most pharmacies in British Columbia can provide the abortion pill mifepristone within days, but uneven access still leaves some women facing barriers to this time-sensitive medication, according to new research.
The study, published Nov. 6 in JAMA Network Open, offers the first province-wide look at pharmacy-level access to mifepristone in B.C.
She died of infection after an abortion. Now, her sister wants accountability
Investigations into Ontario woman’s treatment reveal missed red flags
The Globe and Mail (BC Edition)
27 Aug 2025
WENDY GLAUSER
From the moment Rheanna Laderoute was born, her older sister Kassandra Costabile doted on and protected her. Eight years younger, Ms. Laderoute was deeply empathetic, with a quiet grace and an offbeat sense of humour, Ms. Costabile recalls. And she remembers fondly how Ms. Laderoute could pull off silly sound effects and voices that no one else could – always making her laugh, even when she was upset.
Ms. Laderoute adored her older sister, too. Ms. Costabile once asked her sister why she would sometimes tell their mother about a relationship or school problem, but not her. “You’re the one I’m most fearful of disappointing,” Ms. Laderoute told her.
Continued: https://globe2go.pressreader.com/article/281487872460648
Yun-mi
2025.07.30
Five years have passed since the Constitutional Court ruled that the abortion law was unconstitutional, but abortion by medication remains in a legal gray area. Nothing shows this better than the failure to introduce the abortion pill Mifegymiso (mifepristone and misoprostol) into Korea due to legislative gaps.
“We need a legal basis to begin the approval process for Mifegymiso tablets. Currently, we cannot proceed with its substantive review due to a lack of such a basis,” an official at the Drug Approval Division of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) told journalists on Wednesday.
Continued: https://www.koreabiomed.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=28411
April 11, 2025
By Laura Schummers and Wendy V. Norman
Voters who care about reproductive rights should be demanding clear positions from their candidates on protecting Canada’s legacy in reproductive health policy and access. As erosion of reproductive rights and freedoms unfolds rapidly across the U.S., this is not the time for complacency in Canada.
We shouldn’t assume that Canada will continue as a global leader in upholding reproductive rights and access.
Most Canadians have lived with evidence-based reproductive health policy for so long that they take it to be the global norm, but it is not. Since 1988, abortion has been legally recognized as a standard medical procedure in Canada, free from criminal laws that either protect or restrict it.
The Globe and Mail (BC Edition)
7 Apr 2025
KRISTY KIRKUP, HEALTH REPORTER OTTAWA
Access to abortion services at the local level in Ontario substantially increased within a five-year period after a drug known as mifepristone became available for use in Canada in 2017, according to newly released findings.
A study published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal sheds light on how mifepristone dispensed by local pharmacies in the country’s most populous province changed access to services.
The drug, approved for use by Health Canada, blocks the hormone progesterone, which is needed for a pregnancy to continue. Cramping and bleeding then begins that empties the uterus. It is commonly dubbed the “abortion pill.”
Continued: https://globe2go.pressreader.com/article/281625311126579
Prohibitive costs, limited services, and stigma make obtaining abortion care challenging, say some physicians
Cali McTavish · CBC News
Mar 03, 2025
A Yukon woman is raising the alarm about the cost and difficulty of accessing abortion medication in the territory.
Jane Doe says she had to seek an abortion through the emergency room, because the Opal clinic — the territory's only dedicated abortion services provider — is only open one day a week, for four hours. Jane Doe is a pseudonym. CBC is not disclosing her identity for personal safety reasons.
That day, she says, she was left waiting, watching other patients come and go, until a female doctor was on shift — even though she hadn't asked to be seen by a female doctor.
Emily Blake
Thursday November 28, 2024
While many people face challenges accessing healthcare in the North, advocates say a program is helping people access reproductive choice and abortion services in the NWT.
The Northern Options for Women (or Now) Program has existed for more than a decade.
The confidential program offers pregnancy options counselling, ultrasound evaluation, abortion services, prescriptions for birth control after abortions, and referral to other support services to people experiencing unwanted or abnormal pregnancies and miscarriages.
Continued: https://cabinradio.ca/212107/news/health/what-is-abortion-access-like-in-the-nwt/
By Hannah Alberga, The Canadian Press
November 27, 2024
A Canadian non-profit that helps women obtain the abortion pill in countries with restrictions says it saw a fourfold increase in U.S. requests after the presidential election.
The majority of inquiries came from women who were not pregnant, suggesting many want the drug on hand in case they need it, says Venny Ala-Siurua, executive director of Women on Web.
Ala-Siurua, based in Montreal, says some women fear abortions could become illegal or harder to access in the U.S. after Donald Trump takes office.
It includes $7.5 million to be spent on information campaigns, improving access to abortion services, research and consultations.
Jack Wilson
Published Nov 18, 2024
Quebec will make it easier for women to obtain the abortion pill, increase funding to pro-choice organizations and support additional abortion services as part of a three-year plan to bolster access to abortion, says Martine Biron, minister for the status of women.
The action plan outlines steps the government will take between now and 2027 and is Quebec’s first plan to improve access to abortion.
“Everywhere in the world, we’re seeing setbacks in women’s rights. A shock wave came in 2022 with the reversal of Roe v. Wade” in the United States, Biron said Monday.
Continued: https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/quebec-announces-provinces-first-abortion-access-plan
What the BC NDP and BC Conservatives are promising on abortion, free contraception and cervical cancer screening and treatment.
Michelle Gamage, The Tyee
Sep 26, 2024
Premier David Eby says women’s reproductive rights are on the ballot this election because he claims the Conservatives would cut $4.1 billion from the health-care budget, and that could impact free birth control, home cervical cancer screening tests and expanded gynecological cancer treatment and surgery.
Eby made the comment at a Vancouver campaign event on Sept. 12 where he announced hormone replacement therapy would be made free for people going through menopause.
Continued: https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/09/26/Are-Reproductive-Rights-Ballot-Election/
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