Reproductive Health

What is the point of an online blog if not to be controversial? With that in mind I am dismayed at the Harper government's decision to withhold funding from foreign aid on women's health with regard to abortion. Regardless of your opinion of abortion it currently is the law of the land that abortion is publicly funded. The Harper government claims that they are not trying to open the abortion debate in Canada and that it will remain publicly funded. If that is the case, then why is this appropriate for Canada and not for other nations? Why should women in Canada have this choice and not women from other - poorer - countries?