CANADA – Reproductive health advocates still waiting for Holt to keep promise of free birth control

With gender-based violence declared an epidemic, advocates say it’s time for province to fulfill promise

Hope Edmond · CBC News
Feb 03, 2026

Advocates are calling on the New Brunswick government to make good on its pledge to implement universal, no-cost contraception coverage.

Premier Susan Holt promised to make birth control free during her election campaign in 2024 by signing a pharmacare agreement with the federal government.

“We’re disappointed that the Holt government hasn’t signed a pharmacare deal,” said Tracy Glynn, a founder of Reproductive Justice New Brunswick and the national director of projects and operations for the Canadian Health Coalition.

Continued : https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/pharmacare-free-contraceptives-9.7068501

Canada – Legal challenge on N.B. abortion access is over

Canadian Civil Liberties Association officially drops lawsuit after November repeal of ban on clinic funding

CBC News
Jan 13, 2025

A lawsuit against the New Brunswick government over access to abortion is officially over.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has discontinued the legal action that was intended to force the province to fund procedural abortions in clinics outside hospitals.

The case was launched four years ago but became redundant on Nov. 7, when newly elected Premier Susan Holt announced her cabinet had repealed a section of a provincial regulation that prevented funding clinic abortions.

Continued: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/legal-challenge-on-n-b-abortion-access-is-over-1.7430097

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Canada – ‘History in the making,’ says New Brunswick abortion provider on repeal of restrictive abortion regulation

Holt repeals ban on Medicare-funded abortions outside hospitals

by Tracy Glynn
November 7, 2024

In front of an audience of abortion providers and advocates, Premier Susan Holt announced the end of a regulation that for decades restricted access to abortions in New Brunswick.

Until today, New Brunswick was unique in Canada for having a regulation that restricted procedural abortion services to hospital settings.

Continued: https://nbmediacoop.org/2024/11/07/history-in-the-making-says-new-brunswick-abortion-provider-on-repeal-of-restrictive-abortion-regulation/

Clinic 554 to close, bringing clinic-based abortions to end in Fredericton area

Dr. Adrian Edgar says pro-bono work, increased rent costs are forcing immediate closure of clinic

Aidan Cox · CBC News
Jan 31, 2024

A Fredericton clinic that provides surgical abortions will be closing its doors after Wednesday, with its medical director blaming an unwillingness by the provincial government to allow the procedure to be covered by Medicare.

Dr. Adrian Edgar, the clinic's medical director, announced in 2019 he was being forced to close Clinic 554 over financial pressures incurred from providing pro-bono abortion procedures to women who can't afford to pay for them out of pocket.

On Wednesday, Edgar said the clinic, which has been operating one day a week, will now close completely because of the continuing financial strain from providing the procedure free of charge, and a rent increase at Brunswick Street building that houses the clinic.

Continued: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/clinic-554-fredericton-abortion-1.7100433