The Abortion Debate in the United States and Canada: A Source Book by Maureen Muldoon

Author:Maureen Muldoon [Muldoon, Maureen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: International Relations, Abortion & Birth Control, Social Science, Arms Control, Political Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781317943556
Google: _akjEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-03-19T06:11:15+00:00

THEREFORE

1. We Urge the Government of Canada:

(a) Not to use the provisions in the Criminal Code to regulate abortion.

(b) To enact and enforce penalties for people who perform or attempt to perform abortions without the required medical qualifications or who perform or attempt to perform abortions in places other than those approved for that purpose.

(c) To use shared funding under the Canada Health Act to require all provincial governments to provide adequate contraceptive education and services to effectively reduce the incidence of unwanted pregnancies; and to provide early access to diagnosis and, if necessary, termination of pregnancy so that any such abortion could be performed as early as possible.

2. We Urge Provincial Governments to:

(a) Provide adequate contraceptive education and services.

(b) Provide facilities and personnel necessary to meet the need for abortions, and to make known the availability of such facilities, and require all hospitals to declare publicly their policy on abortion.

3. In order to protect the foetus and the woman from an ill-advised abortion, and to help the woman make a responsible decision, we urge the federal and provincial governments to co-operate with churches and other helping agencies in the funding and further development of counselling services in all centres where abortions are performed, and in geographic areas where such hospital and medical services are not available.

This counselling should include:

(a) Early Pregnancy Counselling

To help the woman to:

- understand her own feelings about being pregnant,

- explore all the options for coping with the pregnancy,

- carrying the pregnancy to term,

- giving up or keeping the baby,

- abortion,

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