Beyond Legal: A Feminist Intersectional Analysis of the Policy Landscape Shaping Indigenous Women’s Access to Abortion Services in Canada

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dc.contributor.authorMiller, Danielle
dc.contributor.supervisorPérez Piñán, Astrid
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-04T22:56:49Z
dc.date.available2023-05-04T22:56:49Z
dc.date.copyright2023en_US
dc.date.issued2023-05-04
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Public Administration
dc.degree.levelMaster of Public Administration M.P.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis locates proven barriers in access to abortion services for Indigenous women in Canada within the policy landscape. It points to opportunities for policy reform to improve access and ultimately, reproductive justice for this population. Critical policy studies and feminist and intersectionality-based policy analysis theory were used to assess documents determined through background research to form the policy landscape. This extended to their design, text, and implementation. Studied federal-level documents included the Indian Act, the Constitution Act, the Indian Health Policy, the Health Transfer Policy, the Canada Health Act, and the Non-Insured Health Benefits Program. Manitoba was assessed as a case study of provincial-level policy given its high proportion of Indigenous residents and evidenced issues in access for this population. This is research that has not been conducted before. It makes a valuable contribution to the literature at a time in which significant political attention is being paid to the subject of abortion access in Canada and to the federal framework for Indigenous health care.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/15107
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectpolicy analysisen_US
dc.subjectabortionen_US
dc.subjectreproductive justiceen_US
dc.subjectindigenousen_US
dc.subjectindigenous womenen_US
dc.subjectfeminist intersectional policy analysisen_US
dc.subjectintersectional policy analysisen_US
dc.subjectaccess to abortionen_US
dc.titleBeyond Legal: A Feminist Intersectional Analysis of the Policy Landscape Shaping Indigenous Women’s Access to Abortion Services in Canadaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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