Quebec anti-abortion group fails to reverse decision banning protests in front of clinics

Judge rules a 'buffer zone' of 50 metres 'necessary' around clinics

Rachel Watts · CBC News
Jul 30, 2025

Brian Jenkins is among the protesters who must continue keeping their distance from Quebec's abortion clinics, after the province's Superior Court upheld a law requiring a 50-metre buffer zone.

It's a blow to the vice-president of the Quebec Life Coalition (QLC). The organization with a mission of "building a Christian society" challenged a 2016 provincial law preventing groups from protesting within 50 metres of an abortion clinic.

Continued: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-anti-abortion-groups-fails-to-reverse-decision-protest-1.7596814

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Canadian abortion group says it may have to shutter after losing government funding

Hannah Alberga, The Canadian Press
Jan 28, 2025

A national group that helps people who have trouble accessing abortion services says it may be forced to shut down in several months after Health Canada declined to renew its funding for the upcoming year.

Abortion Care Canada says it had sought $1.3 million from the federal government's Sexual and Reproductive Health Fund for the next fiscal year but will get nothing, despite having received about $2.2 million in total since the fund was established in 2021.

Continued: https://www.timescolonist.com/health/canadian-abortion-group-says-it-may-have-to-shutter-after-losing-government-funding-10144887

Canada – How pro-life bias is limiting reproductive healthcare access in rural Ontario

Right-to-life groups are increasing stigma and barriers to preventing and eliminating pregnancies

By Mary Baxter
August 2, 2023

After the condom broke, Amanda’s* boyfriend hurried to the drugstore to get the morning-after pill. Anxiety eddied as Amanda waited for him to return. The teenage couple had experienced pregnancy scares before but had never resorted to emergency contraception. A baby couldn’t be in the picture yet, Amanda knew.

In 2018, Amanda was 19 years old. The teen from Chatham-Kent, a rural municipality in southwestern Ontario, had dropped out of high school in Grade 11. They struggled with mental health and lived with their parents. They were unemployed. Their boyfriend, the same age, hit them.

Continued: https://broadview.org/abortion-access-rural/

02.08.2023

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Could free birth control be on the horizon in Ontario?

British Columbia will soon fully cover hormone-based contraception — and Ontario advocates are hoping this province will follow suit

Written by Diane Peters
Mar 15, 2023

Several times a month, a client at the SHORE Centre in Kitchener admits they can’t afford to pay for their birth control.

And SHORE’s executive director, TK Pritchard, suspects many more clients have a hard time paying for their birth control. “We know people who are choosing between buying food that week and getting their birth control,” Pritchard says. “Sometimes they tell us; sometimes they don’t.”

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Canada – The abortion pill shortage is easing — but for some, access remains a struggle

By Rachel Gilmore, Global News
December 21, 2022

Abortion pills are slowly returning to some pharmacy shelves after a shortage that left Canadian women and people who can get pregnant across the country in a lurch for more than two weeks.

Linepharma, which manufactures mifepristone and misoprostol — the drugs sold together under the brand name Mifegymiso in Canada — has confirmed product is being shipped out to providers across the country.

Continued: https://globalnews.ca/news/9365017/abortion-pill-shortage-mifegymiso-canada/

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Canada has been facing an abortion pill shortage. Here’s what to know

By Rachel Gilmore Global News
Posted December 16

Canada has been facing a shortage of its supply of Mifegymiso, the two-drug combination commonly known as the abortion pill, according to the manufacturer of the medication — though supplies are expected to become available next week.

People who can get pregnant have been unable to access the abortion pill in some parts of the country for the last two weeks, according to a spokesperson representing the pharmaceutical company Linepharma.

Continued: https://globalnews.ca/news/9354358/abortion-pill-shortage-mifegymiso-canada-access/