How the N.B. Liberals are slowly moving away from restrictive abortion rules
Global News
The 3 candidates vying to be the next N.B. Liberal leader would allow public funding of surgical abortions performed outside of hospitals, a shift for the once Frank McKenna party.
The party of Frank McKenna, the author of some of the most restrictive abortion rules in the country, has increasingly moved to make abortion care more accessible over the last number of years.
Now, that shift may continue as the candidates looking to sit at the helm of the party are pledging to finish dismantling the legacy of the former premier by striking down McKenna’s final abortion-based regulation as well as actively expanding access to the procedure.
Three candidates vying for the leadership of the New Brunswick Liberal Party say they would expand access to surgical abortion if they were to form government.
Robert Gauvin, TJ Harvey and Susan Holt all say they would allow public funding of surgical abortions performed outside of hospitals and work to ensure the procedure is available and accessible across the province. The fourth leadership candidate Donald Arseneault was not available to talk about his policy pitch.
“It took the Liberal Party of New Brunswick a long time to undo that legacy of Frank McKenna,” said Donald Wright, a political scientist at the University of New Brunswick.
“It’s surprising to me … how long it’s taken the party to catch up to the Canadian consensus.”
In 1989, fresh off the 1988 Supreme Court of Canada’s Morgentaler decision, which held that criminalizing abortion violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, New Brunswick instituted several regulations intended to make obtaining an abortion difficult.
Regulation 84-20 of the Medical Services Payment Act stated that abortions could only be performed in a hospital by a specialist and only after two doctors deemed the procedure medically necessary.
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