Our friends who live on the East coast seem to be clinging to a few anachronistic views about the autonomy of women and the spectrum of choice that should be available to them when it comes to reproductive services.
“Even though it’s a legal medical procedure, P.E.I. remains the only province where abortion services are not offered locally.”
The general notion is that because P.E.I is so darn small some medical procedures necessitate a trip out of province.
Doug Currie the Health Minister says: “There are many services that are currently not available on P.E.I. that Islanders do have to travel off Island for. Unfortunately, due to our limited resources here on P.E.I., being a small province, being a small population, there is just so much money to go around.”
Well Doug, I think it might be time to add one more service to list, call it expanding the economy or increasing your governments commitment to the people but let’s get all of Canada up to speed on its offerings of health and medical services.
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November 23, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Bleatmop
Hogwash (to the minister). If they deliver babies in PEI, then they are set up for emergency D&Cs. If they can do them by emergency, then they can do them by appointment. That is assuming they do deliver babies in PEI.
Also, the money argument is hogwash as well. Any medical services delivered in another province get billed back to the province of origin for that patient.
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