Nijhawan Nasha, McMillan Kelly
Health Law Can. 2016 Aug;37(1):2-10.
On March 31, 2016, the government of Prince Edward Island committed to provide medical and surgical abortions in a public health facility in the Province by the end of the year, for the first time since 1982. The Province's announcement was a direct response to threatened Charter litigation initiated by a group of local veteran activists called Abortion Access Now PEI Inc., which challenged the government's policy not to provide abortion services in the Province. In this commentary, legal counsel for Abortion Access Now PEI Inc. situate the recent litigation efforts within the history of abortion access and advocacy in PEI. They attribute the reversal of the government's position to the successful refraining of the Province's abortion policy in the threatened litigation and the sustained and creative approaches employed by abortion access activists.
2016年3月31日，爱德华王子岛省政府承诺自1982年以来首次在该省的一家公共卫生机构提供医疗和手术堕胎服务。该省的这一宣布是对由当地一群资深活动人士组成的“爱德华王子岛堕胎服务立即获取组织”（Abortion Access Now PEI Inc.）发起的宪章诉讼威胁的直接回应，该组织对政府不在该省提供堕胎服务的政策提出了质疑。在这篇评论中，“爱德华王子岛堕胎服务立即获取组织”的法律顾问将近期的诉讼努力置于爱德华王子岛堕胎服务获取与倡导的历史背景之中。他们将政府立场的转变归因于在面临威胁的诉讼中对该省堕胎政策的成功克制，以及堕胎服务获取活动人士所采用的持续且富有创造性的方法。
