List of Abortion
Clinics in Canada. (PDF file, 4
pages)
Abortion-related stock photos for media use. Please use these photos to illustrate an abortion-related article (instead of an obviously pregnant woman).
Abortion
Law in Canada: Whose Choice? by Josey W.G. Ross, April 2011.
Honours Thesis for Women's Studies 499, University of Victoria (posted
with permission by the author). Discusses bills introduced in Canada
over the years by anti-choice MPs and Senators. (PDF file, 80 pages)
A
Survey of
Anti-Choice Protesting Activity at Canadian Abortion Clinics. A new
survey by the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada reveals that 64% of
abortion clinics in Canada clinics currently experience protest
activity, while a further 15% have had protesters in the past. But 73%
of clinics have no legal protection from picketing. (PDF file, 18 pages)
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. (PDF file, 65 pages) Executive Summary
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).
Anti-abortion “Counseling” Agencies
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).
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, and only the individual
pregnant woman can decide what her fetus means to her. (Note: This
is a poster in PDF format,
1meg. Rotate the page for easy viewing.)
December 2010 - Criminalized Abortion Overshadows Good News of Reduced Unsafe Abortion Deaths. Researchers at the World Health Organization have recently documented a substantial decrease in the numbers of unsafe abortion deaths, but the incidence of unsafe abortion itself has not decreased. Anti-abortion laws in developing countries cause grave harm and endanger women's lives and health.
March 2010 - Abortion
Still Does Not Lead to an
Increased Risk of Breast Cancer (or other health
problems):
Anti-choicers will never let facts get in the way of their ideology,
but here's the evidence again anyway.
March 2010 - Yes, Legalizing
Abortion Does Save Women's
Lives: Anti-choicers make bizarre claims that legalizing
abortion does not improve maternal health and may even harm it, and
that countries with strict anti-abortion laws have better maternal
health records. Nothing could be further from the truth.
May 2010 - 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.
February
2009 - Text of
letter to
Alan
Borovoy,
General
Counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. The letter
refutes his position supporting funding and club
status for anti-choice groups on campus.
January
2009 - Women's
Rights Are Not Up For Debate.
The call to "re-open" the
abortion debate is really a call to re-criminalize abortion and
eliminate the rights of pregnant women, including their right to life.
January 2009 - The Case for Repealing
All Abortion Laws (PDF, first written in 2006). 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.
October 2008 - 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.
September
2008 - Pro-Choice
Is Not Pro-Abortion, by Corey Purdy-Smith. Being pro-choice is
about much more than abortion.
February 2008 - Abortion:
What's the provincial reality? - by Beth Lyons.
A brief lesson in the history, reasoning, and unconstitutionality of
abortion access in New Brunswick.
November 2007 - 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.
December 2006 - 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.