00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.845838 CaOODSP 20221107153046 cr ||||||||||| 171020s1984 oncbd os f000 0 eng d 0-660-52792-8 CaOODSP eng eng fre n-cn--- CS82-601/1984-PDF Some facts about therapeutic abortions in Canada, 1970-1982 [electronic resource] / Statistics Canada, Health Division, Institutional Care Statistics Section = Certaines données sur les avortements thérapeutiques au Canada, 1970-1982 / Statistique Canada, Division de la santé, Section de la statistique des soins en établissements. Certaines données sur les avortements thérapeutiques au Canada, 1970-1982 Ottawa : Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada, 1984. 40 p. : charts, map "October 1984." Digitized edition from print [produced by Statistics Canada]. “Prior to August 1969, a medical threat to the mother's life was the only ground for a woman to obtain legal abortion in Canada. The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1969 (Bill C-150) to amend the then existing abortion law was given Royal Assent and its provisions went into effect on August 26, that year. The amended law allows a therapeutic (legal) abortion to be performed if, in the opinion of a therapeutic abortion committee (a committee attached to a hospital and comprising of no fewer than three doctors) the continuation of the pregnancy would endanger or would be likely to endanger the mother's life or health. This document, through a series of more than thirty charts and graphs, provides an historical perspective to those therapeutic abortions conducted under the amended criminal code between the years of 1970 and 1982. It should be noted that the statistics portray only those legal abortions carried out in Canadian hospitals under the provisions of the Criminal Law Amendment Act"--p. [5]. Issued also in print format. Text in English and French. gccst Abortion gccst Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada. Institutional Care Section. Some facts about therapeutic abortions in Canada, 1970-1982 fre (CaOODSP)9.845839 PDF 1.45 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/statcan/CS82-601-1984.pdf 82-601