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cjgl-2758	Erdman, Joanna N.	The Law of Stigma, Travel, and the Abortion-Free Island	2016	9	.pdf	application/pdf	4083	186	55	It spatially represents a government policy of abortion travel as an act of banishment by and from the state.10 A government policy that requires residents to leave the Island to access abortion services inflicts distinct harms of exclusion, disregard, and neglect, and calls forth a distinct rationale in justification for these harms, namely protection rather than only punishment. Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 2933.1 THE LAW OF STIGMA, TRAVEL, AND THE ABORTION- FREE ISLAND JOANNA N. ERDMAN* In 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada decriminalized abortion in R. v. Morgentaler.1 Almost immediately thereafter, the Maritime province of Prince Edward Island (“P.E.I.”) passed a legislative resolution opposing the provision of abortion services on the Island except to save the life of a pregnant woman.2 P.E.I. is a small pastoral province of rolling hills and ocean coves in the St. Lawrence Gulf, and since 1988, through various regulatory actions, its government has honored this policy promise to keep the Island abortion-free and to preserve its moral landscape.3 The same year that abortion was banished from P.E.I., Prince Edward Islanders also voted “yes” to the building of the Confederation Bridge, which would join the Island to * B.A., J.D., University of Toronto; LL.M., Harvard Law School.	cache/cjgl-2758.pdf	txt/cjgl-2758.txt