Statistics Canada.Ottawa Ottawa, city, Canada Ottawa (ŏt`əwə), city (1991 pop. 313,987), capital of Canada, SE Ont., at the confluence of the Ottawa and Rideau rivers. Hull, Que. -- Statistics Canada Canada (kăn`ədə), independent nation (2001 pop. 30,007,094), 3,851,787 sq mi (9,976,128 sq km), N North America. Canada occupies all of North America N of the United States (and E of Alaska) except for Greenland and the French islands of reports that in 2003, 103,768 babies were killed through surgical abortions. Fifty-three percent of those obtaining abortions were women in their twenties, with a slight decline in the numbers for teenage girls. These figures do not take into account the territory of Nunavut Nunavut (n  `nəvt') [Inuktituk,=our land], territory (2001 pop. 26,745), 772,260 sq mi (2,000,671 sq km), NE Canada. , which provided no information. Nor does it cover abortions done in the U.S. In Calgary, reporter Naomi Lakritz ("Respect for life hard to find here," Cal. Herald, April 13, 2006) reported that, although the local Kensington Clinic will not "terminate" babies over 20 weeks gestation GESTATION, med. jur. The time during which a female, who has conceived, carries the embryo or foetus in her uterus. By the common consent of mankind, the term of gestation is considered to be ten lunar months, or forty weeks, equal to nine calendar months and a week. , the staff are happy to supply women with details of U.S. clinics to fill the gap. Ontario and Quebec also follow this procedure, having each sent over 500 women to Kansas in 2004 at $5,000 per execution.
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