New Brunswick’s Morgentaler Clinic will close in July. I really, really hope the government doesn’t bail them out. New Brunswick is Canada’s only province that doesn’t fund abortions with tax dollars.
A clinic closing means there wasn’t enough demand to keep it open. Not enough demand means women chose something else. And this is the quintessential conundrum for those who support access to abortion. Will they admit that it is a beautiful thing when women choose something other than abortion? Will they say it is a better choice? Not all choices are created equal.
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Julie Culshaw says
Could it not mean that women are choosing instead to have the abortion in hospital where it is paid for? This is what happened in Halifax, the Morgentaler clinic closed here because it couldn’t make enough money, but women were just going to the hospital instead. Why pay when it can be done through health care?