I’m not going to commit at this time to covering fathers during birth, but I will certainly look at exploring the possibility of how we can be, you know, provide better support and other mechanisms. But at the end of the day, our medical travel is incredibly expensive. We have escorts for certain criteria. Criteria like a patient who is under 19 years of age who needs an escort. A patient who is breastfeeding an infant and requires an escort. A patient who has a medical or physical disability of a nature that they require an escort. There’s a lot of criteria that we have to apply and in the situation of birthing, those situations may not apply unless there’s a clinical need on behalf of the mother. But we will certainly look at it, Mr. Speaker.
Glen Abernethy on Question 251-18(2): Support To Participate In The Birthing Experience
In the Legislative Assembly on June 17th, 2016. See this statement in context.
Question 251-18(2): Support To Participate In The Birthing Experience
Oral questions
June 16th, 2016
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