It can't happen here, not in Canada...

[sabotabby]

...except that in New Brunswick, the last hospital that performs provincially funded abortions is about to stop. It's already hard to get an abortion in New Brunswick—unlike in the rest of the country, you need the permission of two doctors. Abortions at the private Morgentaler clinic cost $750 in a province where the average yearly income is around $7000 less than than the national average.

Read this. (Hat-tip to the author. ;))

It's not a ban, of course; just market forces. We have several years still before we catch up to the wingnuttery levels of our ideological masters neighbours to the South, but it's nevertheless an attack on women's reproductive rights and universal health care. And it serves the wingnut agenda just fine—ensuring that poor women have no choices, while ensuring that if their own daughters should wind up in a delicate situation, they'll have access to discreet and private care.

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OMGsquee. I must read this stuff: Bengali science fiction from the 1880s.