One of the biggest misconceptions about abortion, says Lianne Yoshida, a Nova Scotia physician and medical co-director of the Women’s Choice Clinic in Halifax, is that people think it’s a rare or unusual procedure. “It’s very common,” she says. In 2018, there were 1,690 reported abortions at the four Nova Scotia Health Authority sites offering […]
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This is my abortion story: Coast readers share their anonymous experiences
T he Coast invited readers to share their experiences with abortion by emailing stories to myabortion@thecoast.ca. Submissions are published on the following pages, anonymously, with the time the email was received. They all do not depict the state of access in Nova Scotia today. They do depict, however, the entrenched shame and stigma surrounding sexual […]
