Our Mission
Our Mission: To ensure women's reproductive freedom by protecting
and advancing access to abortion and quality reproductive health care.
Our Vision
The ARCC is "pro-choice" and affirms the following:
- To achieve equality, all women must have the right to decide for
themselves whether and when they will bear children, and how many.
Without control of their fertility, women cannot have autonomy over
their lives and cannot play a full and equal role in society.
- Women have a constitutionally-based right to unrestricted,
fully-funded abortion, without legal or other barriers or
discrimination due to gender, class, ethnicity, race, age,
location/region (or area of residence), or any other characteristic,
including reasons for choosing an abortion. The rights of pregnant
women must not be abridged—a pregnant woman is “one person” under the
constitution.
- Women have the right to receive a full range of reproductive
healthcare options, services, and information, including (but not
limited to) medical and surgical abortion, contraception, family
planning services, and comprehensive sexual health education.
- Women have the right to access reproductive healthcare services
safely and in a timely manner, in an atmosphere of dignity, privacy,
respect, trust, and compassion.
- All abortions are medically required—not “elective”—and fall
under the protection of the Canada
Health Act (just like all childbirths). The delivery and funding
of abortion and other medically required reproductive healthcare
services must meet the Act’s five principles.
- Providers of reproductive health care services have the right to
deliver such services free of discrimination, harassment, and violence.
