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New Brunswick becomes the first Canadian jurisdiction to criminalize abortion.
Date: 1810
Canada
Abortion
Laws/legislation/policy
Other jurisdictions soon follow, and by 1892, all forms of contraception and abortion will be illegal across Canada.
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