With an estimated 6.5 million Canadians lacking a family physician, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) says it’s time to seize a rare opportunity: attracting American-trained doctors to Canada.
Probably because they won’t risk getting arrested for providing any care to women who are having problems with their pregnancy? Or for providing healthcare to anyone intersex or trans? I dunno I didn’t read the article, but those would be my biggest concerns as an American doctor.
Abortion care is not codified in Canadian law, but our Supreme Court “left it to Parliament to come up with a new abortion law that would balance the rights of women with the state’s interest in the protection of the fetus, without offending (Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms)”. Source
Since then, because of that decision, no Canadian government has touched abortion and provincial health care covers the cost. But we do have issues with some provinces that have played hardball with abortion clinics (who have no recourse because there is no law on the books).
I have hopes that IF Carney gets a majority government, and IF he’s willing to listen, we can pressure the Liberal party to codifiy abortion in Canadian law.
I have hopes that IF Carney gets a majority government, and IF he’s willing to listen, we can pressure the Liberal party to codifiy abortion in Canadian law.
From what I’ve read, his position is very much on the side of “woman’s right to choose”.
However, I suspect he has a lot of more urgent priorities in the short term than touching the abortion issue.
The only chance that we reach U.S. levels of oppression on medical doctors for abortion and gender/sex health is if we let conservatives win. And even that is very unlikely.
Probably because they won’t risk getting arrested for providing any care to women who are having problems with their pregnancy? Or for providing healthcare to anyone intersex or trans? I dunno I didn’t read the article, but those would be my biggest concerns as an American doctor.
Abortion care is not codified in Canadian law, but our Supreme Court “left it to Parliament to come up with a new abortion law that would balance the rights of women with the state’s interest in the protection of the fetus, without offending (Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms)”. Source
Since then, because of that decision, no Canadian government has touched abortion and provincial health care covers the cost. But we do have issues with some provinces that have played hardball with abortion clinics (who have no recourse because there is no law on the books).
I have hopes that IF Carney gets a majority government, and IF he’s willing to listen, we can pressure the Liberal party to codifiy abortion in Canadian law.
From what I’ve read, his position is very much on the side of “woman’s right to choose”.
However, I suspect he has a lot of more urgent priorities in the short term than touching the abortion issue.
The only chance that we reach U.S. levels of oppression on medical doctors for abortion and gender/sex health is if we let conservatives win. And even that is very unlikely.