Joanna Erdman et al. on Medication Abortion in Canada

Joanna N. Erdman, Amy Grenon, and Leigh Harrison-Wilson have published Medication Abortion In Canada: A Right-To-Health Perspective, American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 98, pp. 1764-1769, 2008.  Here is the abstract:

The right to health under the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, to which Canada is a signatory, entitles women to available, accessible, and acceptable abortion care.
Abortion care in Canada currently fails this standard. Medication abortion (the  use of drugs to terminate a pregnancy) could improve abortion care in Canada, but its potential remains unrealized. This is in part attributable to the unavailability of mifepristone, the safest and most effective pharmaceutical for medication abortion.  Given that it could improve abortion care, we investigated why mifepristone remains unapproved in Canada, whether its unavailability is attributable to government inaction, and whether Canada is therefore failing to fulfill its obligations under the right to health.