Abortion; a term that has a different meaning to each of us but officially it is “when a pregnancy ends abruptly, either voluntarily or involuntarily and the fetus is expelled from the womb before it can live on its own.” (http://www.yourdictionary.com/abortion) Prior to 1988, many women were not given the choice to abort their unborn baby due to the law. Particularly Section 251 of the Criminal Code, which stated that “abortions are legal if the continuation of the pregnancy would result in the death or harm the woman.” On January 28, 1988, Dr. Morgentaler (a man who firmly believed that Section 251 of the Criminal Code was a “barbarous law which caused so many women to suffer”) was finally successfully in overturning Section 251 of the Criminal Code in a 5-2 ruling. From then on abortion was …show more content…
In most cases, when a drug is illegal, there is an increasing demand and a rise in price. Abortion was quite like the drug trends. When it became illegal, the supply of abortion was low, because no hospitals were offering abortions. That means that the “price" of an abortion is high, either in monetary terms because women would usually need to travel abroad to countries where it is legal or bribe doctors or law enforcers. Sometimes, women might even put their lives at stake by agreeing to do abortions in unhygienic and unsafe location. But when Canada declared abortion legal, the supply of the treatment rose since will be offered in clinics or hospitals, the treatment will be paid for by medical insurance. In other words, the 'price' of an abortion falls. The result was that the government had provided safe and legal abortions services perhaps those thousands of women would be healthy and would be