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Pearl Eliadis on the Legal Justification for Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones | CBC

Published: 30 July 2025

July 30, 2025 | Quoted in a recent CBC News article, Pearl Eliadis offered legal insights on the Quebec Superior Court’s decision to uphold the 50-metre buffer zone around abortion clinics. Eliadis underscored the ruling as a necessary protection of health care access, especially amid a rising tide of anti-abortion sentiment influenced by developments in the U.S. While acknowledging the law limits civil liberties, she emphasized that such limits are justified when they prevent interference with medical services. “When somebody bars that access, it’s a problem,” she said, affirming that the courts were “quite right to shut it down.”

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