Fake clinics like the Kamloops centre try to give the impression they are secular medical clinics run by professionals, when most are staffed solely by volunteers with no counselling credentials.
Not providing abortion services in PEI violates women’s constitutional rights, discriminates against women, and endangers their health and lives. It also contravenes the Canada Health Act.
Anti-choice activists in Canada argue that abortion should be defunded and that women should pay out-of-pocket for abortion care. But that is a position that ignores evidence and human rights.
Totals of Members of Parliament from each party who are anti-choice, pro-choice, or unknown, with comparisons just before the election on May 2, 2011 and now.
A new survey by the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada reveals that 64% of abortion clinics in Canada clinics currently experience protest activity, and a further 15% have had protesters in the past.