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LINDA LONG
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01-01-2002
Abortion

Author: LINDA LONG

Abortion is the termination of pregnancy, especially when deliberately induced. Until 1988, under the Canadian Criminal Code, an attempt to induce an abortion by any means was a crime. The maximum penalty was life imprisonment, or 2 years if the woman herself was convicted. Amendments introduced in 1969 exempted from prosecution physicians who induced the miscarriage of a fetus under certain conditions. The law provided for legal abortion if performed by a doctor in an accredited hospital after a committee certified that the continuation of the pregnancy would likely endanger the mother's life or ...

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