Treats abortion as most important of all available medical services TORONTO, Oct 20 (LSN) – NDP MPP Marion Boyd complained in the legislature yesterday that abortion services are not available at St. Michael’s Catholic hospital in Toronto. Elizabeth Witmer, the Minister of Health responded indicating that not all hospitals carry all services and that abortions are available in other hospitals in the city. Not satisfied, Boyd began ranting about physicians being “intimidated and threatened when they perform these services” and said the Minister was “captive to the anti-woman sentiment often advanced by your colleagues in the backbench.” Boyd claimed that the recent Tory plan to cap doctors billings after which the Ontario Health Insurance Plan may reduce payments would threaten access to abortion. She demanded that the Minister “remove abortion procedures from the cap on doctors’ billings.’” Boyd argued only for the removal of abortion services from the billing threshold plan thus treating them as superior to all other medical services offered in Ontario. Whitmer responded that the cap set at $380,000 was hardly restrictive and that “specialists” may apply for exemptions from the threshold.
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ONTARIO NDP DEMANDS GREATER ACCESS TO ABORTION
Treats abortion as most important of all available medical services TORONTO, Oct 20 (LSN) – NDP MPP Marion Boyd complained in the legislature yesterday that abortion services are not available at St. Michael’s Catholic hospital in Toronto. Elizabeth Witmer, the Minister of Health responded indicating that not all hospitals carry all services and that abortions are available in other hospitals in the city. Not satisfied, Boyd began ranting about physicians being “intimidated and threatened when they perform these services” and said the Minister was “captive to the anti-woman sentiment often advanced by your colleagues in the backbench.” Boyd claimed […]
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