“I still think you’ll find the majority pro-life,” she said. Most Islanders, she contends, are against abortion. But it would be “political suicide” for either of the province’s major parties to come out in favour of abortion, said Ann Marie Tomlins, past-president of the P.E.I. Now, the island’s pro-choice activists have the support of the provincial NDP and Green parties, neither of which have seats in the legislature. since the mid-1990s when a Court of Appeal ruling on a legal challenge by abortion doctor Henry Morgentaler reaffirmed the province’s right to restrict funding for abortions at provincial hospitals. The issue of access to abortion has quietly simmered on P.E.I. All that does is download the issue that the individual provinces have to deal with onto the backs of other provinces and that’s unfair.” Now people are saying what’s the problem? Leave the province. “In the 1960s and ’70s women had to leave the country to get abortion and people said what’s the problem? Leave the country.
is trying to shift the issue to other parts of the country, she said. “And the more services you add to the health-care system, obviously there’s going to be more cost to that.”īut unlike hip replacements, abortion is a time-sensitive procedure that is medically simple to perform if done within 15 weeks of conception, said Christabelle Sethna, a women’s studies professor at the University of Ottawa who researches barriers to abortion across Canada.īy refusing to perform the procedure on the Island, P.E.I. “To me, it’s not about the political discussion, it’s more about another service,” he told the Charlottetown Guardian last week. “We have no plans to change the current policy or programming.”Ībortion is just one of several medical procedures that aren’t performed on the island because they are too expensive, including some heart surgeries, cancer treatments and hip replacements, Mr. “Abortion is a complex and sensitive issue that was broadly debated and litigated on Prince Edward Island in the mid-1990s,” he wrote in an email to the Post. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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