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CALGARY, AB, Apr 22 (Lifesitenews.com) – The Alberta College of Physicians is to decide tomorrow if it will limit the prescription of chemical abortions to centres where surgical abortion facilities are available. It seems that, due to the absence of a law on abortion, no restriction exists against doctors prescribing chemical abortion pills from their own offices.

Three years ago BC abortionist Ellen Wiebe requested permission to experiment with administering the cancer-fighting drug methotrexate and the ulcer-fighting misoprostol to women to procure abortions (M&M abortions). After publishing her success with this RU-486-type concoction in the 1996 Canadian Medical Association Journal, she has continued to perform chemical abortions and the procedure is now paid for by health insurance in the province.

With no media coverage or legal accountability, the expansion of the use of the cancer and ulcer drugs to abort babies went unchecked. A conference at the University of Toronto in March of last year on “Medical Termination of Pregnancy” said that “increasing numbers of Canadian physicians have begun to use these drugs.” The brochure for the conference also called the M&M abortions “safe and acceptable for early pregnancy termination up to 7-8 weeks gestational age.”

John Hof, President of Campaign Life Coalition BC told LifeSite that Wiebe, “the chemical coat hanger lady”, is now experimenting with herbal concoctions to cause abortions.