How the New Brunswick government's repeated refusal to fund Clinic 554 violates human rights
The government of New Brunswick's refusal to fund out-of-hospital abortions is a violation of the Canada Health Act, the governing piece of legislation that provides for federal transfers to the provinces and territories for providing public health care. If a provincial government is believed to have violated the act, the federal government can withhold federal health transfers, which the federal government did in March 2020 when it withheld $140,216 in transfer payments to New Brunswick.
What has been missing from this discourse is that repeated refusal among successive provincial governments to fund Clinic 554 is a violation of international human rights law.
I feel that a woman's rights to choice should be respected. Men and governments shouldn't have any say over what women wish to do with their own bodies.