Barriers to abortion in Canada make it an unlikely haven for Americans

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Before the decision, abortion was limited to those who obtained approval from a "therapeutic abortion committee" of doctors at an accredited hospital.
52% : Canada decriminalized abortion in 1988, and abortion rights draw broad political support here.
41% : Even before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, the nearly 50-year-old precedent protecting abortion rights across the United States, some of those inquiries about abortion were from Americans.
40% : The ruling did not establish a right to abortion in Canada, and there's no federal law enshrining one.
38% :Canada's Supreme Court decriminalized abortion in the 1988 case R. v. Morgentaler.
36% : All other providers of abortion, or women who got them, faced criminal penalties.
31% : Abortion after 24 weeks is limited in Canada, sending a small number of people to the United States each year - cross-border travel that advocates worry could be jeopardized by the court ruling.

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