{"id":96930,"date":"2023-05-11T11:54:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T15:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/?p=96930"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T21:05:44","slug":"abortion-an-access-undermined-by-federalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/abortion-an-access-undermined-by-federalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion \u2013 An Access Undermined by Federalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, abortion rights have become an even more pressing issue. However, there is no federal law in Canada that governs access to abortion. Thus, access to abortion depends on provincial health policies and will vary across the country. The Canada Health Act, passed by Parliament in 1984, sets out certain conditions that provinces must meet in order to receive federal funding for the delivery of health services through the Canada Health Transfer program. The Federal Parliament provides health funding to the provinces and the provinces administer health services as they see fit. The Canada Health Act creates legal tension between these two levels of government since the federal government can, with its spending power, require certain actions from the provinces even though health is a provincial jurisdiction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an effort to educate and raise awareness about the legal factors that can restrict access to abortion in Canada, three civil law students met with two speakers to discuss these issues. They met with lawyer Daphne Gilbert,<\/a> a University of Ottawa professor specializing in constitutional law, and Ms. Patricia Larue, Executive Director of the Clinique des femmes de l’Outaouais<\/a>, to explore the legal issues that can affect access to abortion and to better understand the real barriers for women who are entitled to safe access to this service in all regions of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This visual advocacy video was produced by law students Majorie Larochelle, Carol-Ann Tremblay and Daniela Rodriguez as part of the Visual Advocacy\/Law and Film course<\/a> offered at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the reversal of the case Roe v. Wade, abortion rights have become an even more pressing issue in today\u2019s society. In Canada, access to abortion is unequal across the country. Why is this? Does the federal government have a role to play in ensuring fair and equitable access to this health service across the country? Law students have sought to understand the legal issues that may affect access to abortion and the real barriers faced by Canadian women. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":96923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[25,137,135],"class_list":["post-96930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowledge","tag-constitutional-law","tag-health-law","tag-student-project"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":27,"label":"JuriKnowledge"}],"post_tag":[{"value":25,"label":"Constitutional Law"},{"value":137,"label":"Health Law"},{"value":135,"label":"Student Projects"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Montage-V2.00_00_15_24.Still002.jpg",1024,576,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Patrick Walton","author_link":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/author\/patrick\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":27,"name":"JuriKnowledge","slug":"knowledge","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Video publications about legal issues, highlighting the work of legal scholars or the activities of legal practitioners.","parent":0,"count":80,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":27,"category_count":80,"category_description":"Video publications about legal issues, highlighting the work of legal scholars or the activities of legal practitioners.","cat_name":"JuriKnowledge","category_nicename":"knowledge","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":25,"name":"Constitutional Law","slug":"constitutional-law","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":25,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":11,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":137,"name":"Health Law","slug":"health-law","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":137,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":135,"name":"Student Projects","slug":"student-project","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":135,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":23,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}