Cultural Competence

Expressive writing is a form of creative writing that enables those with experience of difficult or troubling events to express their feels in a structured and safe way—allowing them to detach from the experiences themselves and turn them into shareable stories.

The regulatory environment in Canada, combined with the safety and effectiveness of medication abortion and the presence of strong, visible Canadian women leaders in medicine, creates an opportunity to further streamline abortion services and eventually move to a demedicalized model where mifepristone and misoprostol could be available directly from pharmacies.