Charlottetown, PEI
In mid-October, the Abortion Policy Review Committee of Queen Elizabeth Hospital released its recommendations. After 18 months of deliberations during which hundreds of briefs and lett6ers were considered, the committee recommended that abortion not be made available a QEH.
“A hospital cannot do everything. It has to establish priorities and decide which among these many procedures it will make available.” Committee Chairman Eugene Rossiter asserted. He said he had never been able to substantiate the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League’s estimates of demand. He also noted that it is not a very great hardship for PEI women to make the half-day drive3 to hospitals in Halifax or Moncton where abortion is available.
The Board of Directors accepted the Committee’s recommendation, so the hard-won non-abortion policy remains in effect and PEI remains officially abortion free.
