Putting Patients First: Balancing the Conscience Rights of Physicians with Unimpeded Access to Abortion

Written by: Daphne Gilbert (she/her). Edited by: Etienne Maes (he/him). In the never-ending battle to secure safe, accessible, free, and unstigmatized abortion services, the conscientious and religious objections by physicians who refuse to participate in the “abortion decision” imperils our goal. Section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and…