POLI 379 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Henry Morgentaler, Reproductive Justice, Fetus
10 Apr 2019
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Bring questions next thursday for paper proposal and critical synthesis! Tac"s are panels of 3 doctors that rule about seeing if women can access abortion care. Not all hospitals have tac"s so not many women had access to abortion- especially in the rural areas. Provides abortions in quebec and provides women with abortions outside of the law- not in a hospital and not in a tac. 3 premises of the decision: the supreme court rules that the law does infringe on a woman"s right to security. Canada is now left without an abortion law. As soon as law is struck down mahem. Doctors concerned, hospitals turn women away and canadian doctors are scared of the fact that it"s unclear. Puts it back into the criminal code but you only need one doctor approval to decide if an abortion will harm the woman. This passess through parliament and when it passes doctors panic. Not sure- same ambiguity that surrounded section 251.
