Tag Archives: Reproductive Health

Question Period: Rising Healthcare Costs?: Solutons Staring us in the Face – May 6,2015

Mr. Coon: The government is constantly asking opposition members for solutions. When it comes to improving health care and reducing costs, solutions are staring the Minister of Health in the face. Yesterday, in my member’s statement, I said that midwives were able to provide 87% of essential care to women and newborns and substantially reduce costs with better  outcomes for […]

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Health Centre to Offer Abortions in Former Morgentaler Clinic

Health centre to offer abortions in former Morgentaler Clinic  FREDERICTON • Private abortion services will soon be offered in the province again.   On Friday morning, Reproductive Justice New Brunswick held a news conference at the new Clinic 554 in downtown Fredericton, in the same building where the old Morgentaler Clinic shut its doors in July due to a lack of […]

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Debate on Proposed Amendment: Regulation 84-20 (Abortion Services), Dec. 18, 2014

Mr. Coon: While the rates of abortion are declining nationally, abortion remains a personal reality for women in New Brunswick. Abortion access has been legal in Canada since 1969, and it has been recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada as a crucial component of public health care since that time. Reproductive choice is a fundamental right that successive New […]

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