{"id":13010,"date":"1977-02-05T22:46:00","date_gmt":"1977-02-06T06:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13010"},"modified":"2023-02-02T17:26:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T01:26:15","slug":"correspondence-the-canadian-abortion-law-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13010","title":{"rendered":"(Correspondence) The Canadian abortion law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">May Cohen, Wendell Watters, Linda Rapson<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"171\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cmaj.jpg\" alt=\"Canadian Medical Association Journal, CMAJ\" class=\"wp-image-11269\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Canadian Medical Association Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>. . . risks are relative. A woman exposed to childbirth is at greater risk than a woman having an induced abortion . . . Blame for cervical lacerations sustained in the course of an induced abortion should be laid on the surgeon, not on the procedure. . . . .We are impressed by improvements in maternal and infant health reported in areas where safe legal abortions are relatively easy to obtain: mortality and morbidity from septic illegal abortion all but disappear and neonatal mortality plummets. . . While the state did not force her to have heterosexual intercourse, it is clearly intending her to remain pregnant against her will by making it impossible to interrupt a pregnancy she has tried to avoid. It is our view that abortion should be at the bottom of a list of options available to an unwillingly pregnant woman. . . . there needs to be a consensus among gynecologists as to the point during gestation when abortion is no longer an option. . . abortion is a nasty business. The answer to its elimination surely lies in . . . adequate sex education in our schools, and training programs in human sexuality and reproductive regulation in the curricula of our health care educational institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Cohen M, Watters W, Rapson L. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1878926\/pdf\/canmedaj01497-0026b.pdf\">(Correspondence) The Canadian abortion law<\/a>. Can. Med Assoc J. 1977 Feb 05;116(3):247, 250. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May Cohen, Wendell Watters, Linda Rapson Extract. . . risks are relative. A woman exposed to childbirth is at greater risk than a woman having an induced abortion . . . 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