Canadians concerned for Americans who may lack abortion access in wake of top court ruling
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CBC News) A U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn constitutional protections for abortion has left some Canadian observers concerned for those who will struggle to access services they may urgently need in the wake of the ruling.
The decision from the top U.S. court had been forecasted weeks ago, when a draft version was leaked to the media.
But the ruling has set off so-called trigger laws in at least 13 states, banning or severely limiting access to abortion there.
"I think it really sets the United States of America up as a kind of outlier in the Western world," said Noreen Golfman, a Canadian academic who helped set up the first abortion clinic in Newfoundland and Labrador more than three decades ago.
"It's not just sending women's rights backwards, it's like sending the whole country backwards in so many ways." .............(more)
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