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Medical Reform Group - report in The Interim, February 6, 1985

http://www.theinterim.com/issues/abortion/medical-reform-group/

Publisher:  The Interim
Date Written:  06/02/1985
Year Published:  1985  
Resource Type:  Article

On January 8 [1985], four spokesmen for a group called the Medical Reform Group of Ontario stated in a press-conference that Ontario should permit abortion clinics.

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On January 8, four spokesmen for a new group called the Medical Reform Group of Ontario stated in a press-conference that Ontario should permit abortion clinics.

They said that the present hospital system is “unnecessarily dangerous” because it results in lengthy delays. They also denounced further prosecution of Henry Morgentaler and argued that Ontario should follow Quebec’s example which, they said, sanctions 20 free-standing clinics. They claimed to represent 150 Ontario doctors.

The four doctors at the press conference were Miriam Garfinkle, family physician; Debby Copes, family physician; John Frank, assistant professor of preventive medicine and biostatistics at the University of Toronto, all from Toronto; and Robert James of Dundas, Ontario.

Garfinkle was reported as saying that the Canadian Medical Association supports free-standing clinics. One week later, in a letter to the Toronto Star, Debby Copes explained that this statement was to have been attributed to herself and that she had been informed by the CMA that free-standing abortion clinics was not their position.

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