{"id":103782,"date":"2022-06-30T17:34:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T21:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=103782"},"modified":"2022-06-30T17:40:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T21:40:24","slug":"i-wanted-to-make-sure-that-i-wasnt-quiet-student-plans-protest-in-response-to-us-supreme-court-decision-on-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/i-wanted-to-make-sure-that-i-wasnt-quiet-student-plans-protest-in-response-to-us-supreme-court-decision-on-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t quiet’: Student plans protest in response to US Supreme Court decision on abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Pro-choice activists plan to march in Sackville on Sunday<\/a> to protest the US Supreme Court\u2019s decision to overturn Roe versus Wade.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

That ruling means women no longer have a legal right to abortion in the United States.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Jenna Auguscinski, a student at Mount Allison University who is organizing this weekend\u2019s march, says she fears criminalizing abortion will increase the suicide rate among women.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cI think it's a huge issue and I think people are being pretty quiet in Canada about it, so I wanted to make sure that I wasn't quiet about it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Here in New Brunswick, the provincial government\u2019s policy on abortion has also attracted criticism.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The province only subsidizes procedural or surgical abortions in three hospitals in New Brunswick, two in Moncton and one in Bathurst.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Under the Medical Services Payment Act, regulation 84-20 restricts those procedures to approved hospitals. Activists have called on the province to scrap that regulation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cIn New Brunswick, if you need an abortion, and you can't receive it in a hospital, the province doesn't pay for it,\u201d said Tasia Alexopoulos, Mount Allison\u2019s Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Coordinator. \u201cThat can be 600 to $1,200 out of pocket.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Listen to the full interview with Auguscinski and Alexopoulos from Jun. 29, 2022:<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\nhttps:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Auguscinski_Alexopoulos.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The federal government previously withheld $140,000 in health transfer funds to penalize the province for violating the Canada Health Act over inadequate abortion services, although Ottawa reportedly reimbursed<\/a> that money to help the province cope with the effects of COVID-19.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Premier Blaine Higgs, a self-described<\/a> \u201cpro-life\u201d politician, has stated that access to abortion is adequate in New Brunswick.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Hospitals are meeting demand for abortions and the non-surgical abortion pill is getting \u201cwidespread use,\u201d he said Thursday, citing New Brunswick\u2019s regional health authorities.<\/p>\r\n

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Premier Blaine Higgs is pictured during a virtual media conference on June 30, 2022. Photo: Screenshot<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cWe believe that, you know, we're meeting those needs, and that's the advice that I'm getting,\u201d he said in response to questions from CHMA during a media conference via Zoom.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Listen to the Higgs\u2019 comments from June 30, 2022:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Higgs_Jun_30_2022.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\r\n

Alexopoulos said barriers to abortion medication include doctors who refuse to prescribe it. Higgs said that\u2019s out of his hands.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cI can't, you know, be responsible for the medical profession and what they want they do, in relation to their personal practices,\u201d he said.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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