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ArticleHealthcare policy = Politiques de sante2025

Adolescent Access to Abortion Care in Canada: Age, Capacity and Parental Consent.

Alana Cattapan, Kathleen Hammond, Eleanor Mcgrath

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Article in Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Provincial Leadership and Green Shoots: Where to Look for Innovation.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Alana CattapanAssistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Adjunct Professor, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK.
Kathleen HammondAssistant Professor, Lincoln Alexander Faculty of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON.
Eleanor McgrathDepartment of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For adolescents seeking abortion care in Canada, clear information about age and parental consent requirements is not always available. This article details the state of age of consent law and policy across Canada, focusing on access to abortion care. It identifies three key concerns, namely, challenges with unclear or contradictory information, obstacles presented by having additional requirements for minors' consent and difficulties posed by restrictions that require parents and/or guardians to be involved in decision making. The article concludes with recommendations to reduce these barriers to care.

Indexed as

Abortion, InducedHealth Services AccessibilityMental CompetencyParental ConsentAdolescentAge FactorsCanadaFemaleHumansPregnancy

Identifiers

PMID40624860
PMCPMC12280353

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