Before there were abortion rights in Canada, there were abortion clinics. Regulation 84-20 was an anti-clinic law which the province of New Brunswick defended for decades. This article engages the care politics of the freestanding clinic in Canadian law to explain the significance of Regulation 84-20 and its reform as an act of democratic governance. Rather than abortion law, the article thus centers on the abortion clinic by studying a New Brunswick Court of Appeal judgment that granted Dr. Morgentaler, as the owner and operator of an abortion clinic, public interest standing to constitutionally challenge Regulation 84-20. In this judgment, the freestanding clinic made visible the care burdens of the law, especially in New Brunswick as a largely rural place. By meeting peoples’ needs for abortion care, by caring about and taking care of people, the Fredericton clinic also laid claim to the province’s public health care system. This claim to public power insisted on the right not to a single health service, but the right to a political world, where the state takes care of people, and its public institutions care for all. This was true of the abortion clinic in Fredericton, New Brunswick.