Feds Announce Over $4M in Funding for Projects to Increase Abortion Access in Canada

Feds Announce Over $4M in Funding for Projects to Increase Abortion Access in Canada
Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth Marci Ien rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Oct. 27, 2022. The Canadian Press/Justin Tang
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Health Canada has announced that it will be giving over $4 million in funding to two projects that are intended to increase abortion access across Canada for “underserved populations” as part of the federal government’s Sexual Reproductive Health Fund (SRHF) created in 2021.

The total allocation of $4.2 million in federal funding will go toward the University of British Columbia’s Contraception and Abortion Research Team (CART) and the “Access for All Expansion” project being conducted by the organization Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, which describes itself as “Planned Parenthood Canada.”