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Abortion Rights Group Plans To Take Island Government To Court Over Access

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 05 Jan, 2016 12:02 PM
    CHARLOTTETOWN — An abortion rights group in P.E.I. says it plans to take the province to court over its refusal to provide the medical procedure on the Island.
     
    Abortion Access Now PEI said in a statement today that it has notified the province's deputy attorney general that it intends to file a notice of application in the Supreme Court of P.E.I. 
     
    The newly formed group says the province has an obligation to provide safe abortions on the Island under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
     
    Colleen MacQuarrie, the group's co-chairwoman, says they will fight to have the provincial government pay for abortion services on the Island.
     
    Women from P.E.I. now have to travel to New Brunswick or Nova Scotia to obtain surgical abortions paid for by the Island government.
     
    Premier Wade MacLauchlan has promised to remove barriers to access to abortion, but critics say he hasn't gone far enough.

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