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From RJNB

This is Victor Boudreau, New Brunswick’s minister of health, at an anti choice rally in Fredericton yesterday. Twitter:  @VictorBoudreau

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How One Canadian Province Is Leading North America in Fucking Up Abortion Access | Broadly

It's not just the US—in New Brunswick, women have to navigate a confusing and costly labyrinth to get a safe and legal abortion, and there's only one clinic that operates in the province.

"This law was only created when the Morgentaler Clinic started, and it was only meant for Frank McKenna to stop Morgentaler from practicing. That's the only reason why those laws exist. There's no medical basis for them—they're just pure restrictions," says Gray.

In a surprise to no one, this created a lot of issues for both doctors and patients. Doctors, like many trained professionals, are hard to come by in New Brunswick. The current waiting list to get a family doctor has over 10,000 people. So finding not one, but two pro-choice doctors who can certify that an abortion is necessary is no easy feat. The government is willfully ignorant about the associated costs beyond travel expenses, according to Rodimon. "When we talk about geography, we talk about travel, but like the lesser known expenditures of travel," says Rodimon. "Besides the transportation, there's childcare, elder care, the cost of taking time off of work, the cost of accommodation—the list goes on."

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Ideally, Zika might bring about an overdue series of political epiphanies: hey, the unpredictability of mosquito bites is like the unpredictability of life itself. That’s why abortion rights should be universal, right? It’s not impossible; as Sarah Zhang pointed out in WIRED last week, a rubella epidemic that required “therapeutic” abortions helped set the stage for Roe and the legalization of abortion back in the middle of the last century. Remember this spring when GOP candidates practically vaulted over each other, thumping their chests, to proclaim their enmity for Planned Parenthood and disapproval of abortion? That would look quite callous in the face of a nationwide health crisis, and might conceivably at least change the tone of the conversation. But some of the activists I spoke to weren’t sure that that kind of awakening is possible in today’s Ted Cruz-friendly climate. They instead compared this potential outbreak to the early years of HIV/AIDS, in which (as has happened already in Central and South America) social prejudice hindered effective treatment. When the disease does arrive, it may demonstrate that the “Catch-44” Herold describes isn’t limited to other countries. While privileged women like me huddle near air conditioners with our windows shut, Zika could easily entrap American women in areas with standing water that breeds mosquitoes, closed clinics, no access to the later abortions a microcephaly diagnosis might require, and a patchwork system of healthcare.

The Abortion Rights Dystopia Brought On by the Zika Crisis CW Cissexism

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Abortion for black women has always been a revolutionary rejection of patriarchy, white supremacy and forced systems of oppression. The great scholars Patricia Hill Collins and Angela Davis have explained that throughout slavery and into the 20th century, self-abortion through herbal remedies, hangers, hatpins and pencils were a way out of slavery and poverty. Our ancestors fought hard to refuse to carry the children of their master rapists and rear another generation of slaves, even when it meant that “barren” women were deemed worthless chattel and sold between plantations. From generation to generation, stories and recipes were passed down to ensure that women weren’t forced to carry pregnancies they never desired or weren’t able to carry healthily. For as many powerful women that raised children in the worst conditions imaginable, so there were those who refused.

Whitewashing reproductive rights: How black activists get erased - Salon

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What Happens When A Country Without Abortion Bans Pregnancy?

In response to Zika virus, officials are promoting a two-year ban on pregnancy in El Salvador—where abortions are illegal and birth control is hard to come by

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“Here’s the problem: Abortions are illegal in El Salvador, and birth control is hard to come by. The irony, which seems lost on El Salvador, is that the same government that denies women control over their reproductive health is now asking those same women to control their reproductive health until 2018.“

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Today, Abortion Access Now PEI (AAN PEI) advised the Prince Edward Island (PEI) government that it will file a legal challenge to the province’s abortion policy.

According to AAN PEI, “For over two decades, we have advocated for on-Island, safe, legal access to abortion. Unfortunately, it is clear to us that nothing short of a court order will prompt the government to comply with its obligations to PEI residents under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Every other province provides safe legal access to abortion. Only PEI refuses to do so. It is time for our equality rights to matter. PEI’s discriminatory and unlawful abortion policy must end.” 

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“These ‘feticide’ laws are being used to punish the pregnant women they purport to protect, and will only discourage those who need medical care from seeking help, putting women and their babies at greater risk. “What we are seeing in the US should serve as a warning to those who support reproductive rights in the UK. Ending a pregnancy remains a criminal offence in British law that carries a potential twelve-year prison term if the grounds of the 1967 Abortion Act are not met. “This means that a woman who buys abortion pills online could be incarcerated. Women need access to high quality reproductive healthcare services and support. In the 21st century, their personal decisions about whether to continue or end a pregnancy do not belong in the criminal law.”

Twenty-year sentence handed to Purvi Patel for death of foetus condemned by women’s groups 

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