Safe Access Zone Laws and Court Injunctions in Canada - (to protect abortion access)

12 Benefits of Safe Access Zones The benefits of safe access zones to protect facilities that provide abortion include: • Protecting the safety and privacy of providers, staff, and patients • Protecting the right to access healthcare services • Protecting patients’ health by reducing the risk of complications (due to emotional distress from the presence of protesters) • Protecting the clinic and p. [...] In the context of clause-by-clause consideration of Bill 92, An Act to increase the powers of the Régie de l'assurance maladie du Québec, to regulate drug marketing practices and to protect access Voluntary abortion services, the government is creating areas in which women can access clinics without fear of being harassed or harassed by activists who challenge the right to abortion. [...] With the creation of protection zones in the vicinity of family planning clinics, the government was able to protect women while preserving the freedom of expression of anti-choice activists. [...] It should be noted that the three clinics had to multiply the interventions before the courts to keep away the demonstrators who were setting up at the very door of the clinics to discourage women who had chosen to interrupt their pregnancy. [...] 423.2 (1) Every person commits an offence who engages in any conduct with the intent to provoke a state of fear in (a) a person in order to impede them from obtaining health services from a health professional; (b) a health professional in order to impede them in the performance of their duties; or (c) a person, whose functions are to assist a health professional in the performance of the health p.