Articles & Presentations
Anti-abortionists continue to ignore all the evidence: Rebutting Andrea Mrozek’s and Rebecca Walberg’s extremely weak rebuttal (on estimating numbers of maternal deaths from unsafe abortion).
Book Review of Marci
McDonald's "The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in
Canada" - by Sheila Kieran. Prime Minister
Stephen Harper has virtually turned over the keys to his government to
right-wing Christians.
Vancouver Tribute Rally for
Dr. George Tiller - Tributes and speeches from the rally on
June 18, 2009 in Vancouver.
Norma
Scarborough Remembrances - Canada's pro-choice matriarch died on
April 2, 2009. She was a founding member of the Canadian Abortion
Rights Action League . This piece is a collection of remembrances
compiled by Amanda Le Rougetel.
Exposing
Crisis Pregnancy Centres in BC - A research report by the
Pro-Choice Action Network. Anti-abortion "counselling" agencies
rely on deception, misinformation, and emotional manipulation to
persuade women against abortion. Executive
Summary
Text of letter to
Alan
Borovoy,
General
Counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, February 12,
2009. The letter refutes his position supporting funding and club
status for anti-choice groups on campus.
Pro-Choice
Is Not Pro-Abortion, by Corey Purdy-Smith - Being pro-choice is
about much more than abortion.
Canada Does Not Need an
Abortion Law, by Joyce Arthur - Since 1988, Canada has proven that
abortion care can be delivered responsibly without any laws restricting
abortion. With our low abortion rate and majority support for women's
equality, Canada's example should be a role model for the rest of the
world.
How to Establish
a Pro-Choice
Group on Campus: Learn the basics for
starting and running your own pro-choice group on campus! Find out why
your campus needs one, how to structure it, recruit members, run
meetings, carry out activities,
raise funds, and
sustain your group. Researched and written by a Simon Fraser University
student (PDF file, 34 pages).
Joyce
Arthur's Rebuttal
to Ken Epp: Bill
C-484 Endangers Abortion Rights and Women’s Rights by Establishing
Fetal Personhood. A detailed response
to MP Ken Epp's claims that the harms done to pregnant women by U.S.
feticide laws could not happen under his Bill C-484.
Abortion:
What's the provincial reality? - by Beth Lyons
A brief lesson in the history, reasoning, and unconstitutionality of
abortion access in New Brunswick.
Anti-Choicers
Want to Jail Women for Abortion
Some of Canada’s leading anti-abortion spokespersons want women to
be prosecuted and
jailed for
homicide for having abortions. In a disturbing section of November’s The
Interim ("Canada's Life and Family newspaper"), six prominent
anti-choice spokespersons consider the
question of
criminal punishment for abortion, if abortion were to be made illegal
again.
Shockingly, four out of six believe women should be prosecuted and sent
to jail,
while the other two want women subjected to mental health treatment.
The Case Against a "Fetal Homicide" Law
Four recent murder cases in Canada have involved a
pregnant
woman being murdered by a male partner or friend. As a result, people
have urged that the perpetrator be charged with two homicides – of both
the woman
and her fetus. This article explains why creating a law to allow murder
charges on behalf of fetuses would be an
unconstitutional infringement on women’s rights, and would likely
result in harms against pregnant women.
Many agencies that counsel
pregnant women are actually
anti-abortion Christian ministries. Their main goal is to stop women
from
having abortions. Studies have
shown that most of these agencies misinform and try to
intimidate women out of having abortions. (Note: This is a brochure
that can be printed and distributed - please print double-sided and
tri-fold).
The Time Has Come – Again: Securing Equal Access to Abortion in New Brunswick – Learn about the poor access situation in New Brunswick, and what you can do about it. Includes sample letters you can send to the New Brunswick and federal health ministers.
A Direct Attack on Abortion Rights – (updated October 2008) Liberal MP Paul Steckle introduced a bill in 2006 to ban abortions after 20 weeks, and introduced it again in 2007. It may come back yet again! Read about what's wrong with this bill, and the true facts on late abortion in Canada.
The Case for Repealing All Abortion Laws (PDF) - In every country, all abortion laws and restrictions should be repealed as unconstitutional violations of women's rights and equality. This article explains in detail why abortion laws are harmful and useless, using evidence from Canada’s example.
We Don’t Need a Law Against Abortion – This editorial summarizes some of the main points in the more detailed article above (The Case for Repealing All Abortion Laws).
How to Think
About the Fetus - Should providers and the pro-choice movement
acknowledge the "moral value" of the fetus? This philosophical
presentation explains that judging what a fetus is, and any value it
may have, is entirely subjective and personal. Only the individual
pregnant woman can decide what her fetus means to her, and our role is
to respect her opinion. (This is a poster in PDF format,
1meg. Rotate the page for easy viewing.)
Paternity,
Patriarchy, and Reproductive Rights - Most of the
oppression of women that occurs in the world today can be traced back
to this: women's ability to bear children and men's need to control
their paternity. A woman deciding to have an abortion represents a
serious threat to patriarchal authority.