What is the percentage of late term abortion in canada in the year 2003?
Dozens of Canadian women who must travel to the United States for controversial abortions when they’re about six months pregnant and beyond may soon have an option closer to home. Quebec health officials said they are hopeful a newly trained doctor will set up practice in the province next year, offering a service that even staunch pro-choice Canadian doctors like Henry Morgentaler refuse to provide for ethical reasons. “The right to an abortion is well-recognized in Quebec and Canada,” Cathy Rouleau, a spokeswoman for Quebec Health Minister Philippe Couillard, said Friday. “We have an obligation to get a patient the help that she needs.” Canadian women currently travel to Colorado, Kansas and Washington each year to have late-term abortions because no Canadian doctor will perform them. The stateside procedures are paid for by provinces including British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec, where 85 per cent of about 105,000 abortions in Canada are performed each year. Each late-term abortion
