Cover of the “Report on Therapeutic Abortion Services in Ontario”

Date: January 27, 1987.
Credit: “Report on Therapeutic Abortion Services in Ontario: A Study Commissioned by the Ministry of Health”, Marion Powell. The Miss Margaret Robins Archives of Women’s College Hospital, Dr. Marion Powell fonds, POW-2-56.

In her report, Dr. Marion Powell found that women did not receive “timely and optimal support” under the abortion system in Ontario in the mid-1980s. One of her recommendations was the establishment of regional abortion centres.