Medication Abortion in Canada: A Right-to-Health Perspective
Joanna Erdman, University of Toronto – Faculty of Law
Amy Grenon, affiliation not provided to SSRN
Leigh Harrison-Wilson, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 98, pp. 1764-1769, 2008
Abstract:
The right to health under the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, to which Canada is a signatory, entitles women to available, accessible, and acceptable abortion care. Abortion care in Canada currently fails this standard. Medication abortion (the use of drugs to terminate a pregnancy) could improve abortion care in Canada, but its potential remains unrealized.This is in part attributable to the unavailability of mifepristone, the safest and most effective pharmaceutical for medication abortion. Given that it could improve abortion care, we investigated why mifepristone remains unapproved in Canada, whether its unavailability is attributable to government inaction, and whether Canada is therefore failing to fulfill its obligations under the right to health.
Available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1280344
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