SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — The Prince Edward Island government has chosen the Prince County Hospital in Summerside as the location for a Women’s Wellness Centre that will offer abortions. Until now, Prince Edward Island women seeking an abortion had to travel off the Island for the procedure. A release from the P.E.I government says the new centre will provide care for Island women needing specialized reproductive and sexual health services, including “pregnancy termination.”The province is providing $5.35 million in funding for an expansion of the hospital’s Ambulatory Care Centre that will include construction of the new centre. is the last province in the country to allow abortion access within the province, 28 years after the 1988 Morgentaler decision of the Supreme Court struck down laws restricting abortion in Canada.

Source: National Post September 16, 2016 17:32 UTC