TORONTO—If you didn’t already know it was there, you'd never spot the Morgentaler abortion clinic in Toronto’s upscale Leaside neighbourhood. On a quiet, tree-lined residential street, around the corner from a natural foods grocer and a gourmet pizza shop, is a nondescript grey door. On either side of it are the entrance and exit to an underground parking lot. There’s no sign, only the words “clinic entrance” printed in white lettering on the door. An elderly lady with a pink sweater...
A court date is scheduled for later this month after her second arrest in two weeks for silently protesting at an abortion clinic.
Abortion in Canada is legal throughout pregnancy and is publicly funded as a medical procedure under the combined effects of the federal Canada Health Act and provincial health-care...
The Ontario College of Teachers brought Mike Del Grande before a tribunal in hearings starting November 2022 for comments he made about gender identity and abortion in 2019. Del Grande has a teaching licence but has never worked as a teacher. His attorney, Charles Lugosi, argued that the college has no jurisdiction over his speech because he was speaking as a trustee and not as ...
A timeline of abortion rights events in Canada
Canada decriminalized abortion in 1988. But ‘just because abortion is legal doesn’t mean it’s always accessible,’ says one observer
이소영 ; 한국보건사회연구원 (Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs) 국제사회보장리뷰 2021년 가을호, 통권 18호, pp.27-37
Emily Howard Jennings, as she was originally named, worked as a schoolteacher when she was a teenager, then became the first female school principal in pre-Confederation Canada. She married John Stowe in 1856 and raised a family. When her husband developed tuberculosis in 1863, Stowe decided to become a doctor. Turned down by the Toronto School of Medicine because of her gender, Stowe studied at New York Medical College for Women, which taught homeopathic medicine. After graduating, she opened an office in downtown Toronto in 1867. In the proce ...
Advocates in an Ontario region where there's a vocal anti-abortion elected official say the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade controversy is a reminder to fight harder for better access to abortions...
Ottawa region, it is similarly dedicated to providing safe and private medical and surgical abortions, with all the ancillary services that we provide here at the Toronto Abortion Clinic.