{"id":45802,"date":"2015-03-27T02:25:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T18:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45802"},"modified":"2025-01-30T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T22:32:14","slug":"quebec-premier-insists-there-will-be-no-restrictions-on-access-to-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/27\/quebec-premier-insists-there-will-be-no-restrictions-on-access-to-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec premier insists there will be no restrictions on access to abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45310\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45310\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Philippe-Couillard-e1426782108744.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45310\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Philippe-Couillard-e1426782108744.jpg\" alt=\"Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard (Patrick Lachance MCE \/ Philippe Couillard's Facebook photo)\" width=\"486\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Philippe-Couillard-e1426782108744.jpg 486w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Philippe-Couillard-e1426782108744-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard (Patrick Lachance MCE \/ Philippe Couillard&#8217;s Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">QUEBEC \u2014 The Quebec government will not limit access to abortion clinics, Premier Philippe Couillard repeated several times on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Montreal Le Devoir reported that quotas would be imposed on doctors under proposed legislation and could possibly lead to the closure of some abortion clinics.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy singulair online <a href=\"http:\/\/forest-therapy.net\/images\/photoalbum\/gif\/singulair.html\">http:\/\/forest-therapy.net\/images\/photoalbum\/gif\/singulair.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It cited a ministerial working document that indicated abortion would not be considered a medical priority.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy pregabalin online <a href=\"http:\/\/forest-therapy.net\/images\/photoalbum\/gif\/pregabalin.html\">http:\/\/forest-therapy.net\/images\/photoalbum\/gif\/pregabalin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>But Couillard told the national assembly Bill 20 would actually increase access to health services, including abortion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is absolutely no question of limiting in any way \u2014 directly or indirectly \u2014 access by Quebec women to abortions,&#8221; the premier said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the result of a long battle, it&#8217;s a part of our society that we will not change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Montreal women&#8217;s health centre said it interpreted a draft regulation in the bill to mean that Health Minister Gaetan Barrette intends to limit the number of abortions practised by Quebec doctors.<\/p>\n<p>But Barrette told reporters that was an erroneous interpretation and that access to abortion will not be restricted.<\/p>\n<p>Couillard also pointed out that the regulation would be the subject of consultations and people will have a chance to voice their opinion.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy doxycycline online <a href=\"http:\/\/forest-therapy.net\/images\/photoalbum\/gif\/doxycycline.html\">http:\/\/forest-therapy.net\/images\/photoalbum\/gif\/doxycycline.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>There were 25,899 abortions in Quebec in 2011-12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUEBEC \u2014 The Quebec government will not limit access to abortion clinics, Premier Philippe Couillard repeated several times on Wednesday. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":45310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,37,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-health","category-politics","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287087,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45802\/revisions\/287087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}