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Record W4396508520 · doi:10.4324/9781003480549-6

Abortion Access in Canada and the Impacts of COVID-19

2024· book-chapter· en· W4396508520 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Maria O'Leary

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicReproductive Health and Contraception
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAbortionCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)GeographyMedicinePregnancyBiology

Abstract

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In its long list of unanticipated impacts, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated negative health impacts relating to abortion access in Canada. Abortion has been legal in Canada since 1988. Canadians who are seeking abortion typically have two options: a surgical abortion, which is performed in a hospital, or a medical abortion, which can be accessed at a pharmacy and is also known as the abortion pill (Mifegymiso). Despite the national legalization of abortion, each province and territory has the right to decide whether to fund abortion, stating it is not medically necessary ( Stettner, 2016 ). Arguably, Atlantic Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island) has the most restrictive access to abortion services, with little funding and few abortion providers. This means that people often travel to access abortion. For example, New Brunswick, which shares a land border with the United States, has only three hospitals that provide abortion. As a result, many residents rely on crossing international borders to access abortions, especially late-term abortions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.126
Threshold uncertainty score0.917

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.006
Science and technology studies0.0070.003
Scholarly communication0.0060.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0320.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.338
Teacher spread0.308 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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