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A Report on ARCC’s 2025 Election Toolkit – Success!
ARCC created a dynamic Election Toolkit for the 2025 federal election. We wanted to inform Canadians of the threats to reproductive rights and access posed by a potential Conservative government, and to help people choose candidates who would defend reproductive justice for women and gender-diverse folks. By all measures, the toolkit was a success –
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Your Role in the Fight for Reproductive Justice
(Reprinted from Rabble.ca) by Carolyn Kavanagh After the 2024 United States election results, web searches for “Abortion rights in Canada” and “Does Canada have abortion rights?” increased by more than 5,000 per cent apiece. Abortion is one of the most commonly performed medical procedures in the country as an estimated 1 in 3 Canadian women
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What has each party done for reproductive rights?
Find out what each major political party in Canada has done for – and against – reproductive rights and justice. (Have we missed something? Let us know!) UPDATE: The party platforms are out! We’ve edited this piece to include relevant parts of each platform. (Note: We did not analyze them except to make clarifying comments
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Vote Smart with our Election Toolkit!
Are you concerned about the upcoming federal election and what it means for abortion rights and access? We’re excited to share our 2025 Election Toolkit! Browse the Toolkit Throughout the election campaign, our toolkit will be updated with tools to help you unpack information and navigate election promises as they relate to reproductive rights, so
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Records of Hardline Anti-choice MPs
We have selected the most hardline anti-choice incumbents who are running again in the 2025election and looked at their records in more detail. These MPs may pose the most danger in aConservative government besides Poilievre himself. Read the Records of Hardline Anti-choice MPs
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Threats to abortion rights and Reproductive Justice under a federal Conservative government
Legal and political threats: Private member bills (PMBs) passing on a free vote with a majority Con government. (Poilievre’s pledge to not legislate on abortion appears to mean he wouldn’t introduce a government bill, as he supports PMBs). Potential bill candidates: Further legal/political threats: Funding threats Provincial threats
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Poster: Abortion laws – why we don’t need any
Canada has successfully had no abortion law for 36 years. The Supreme Court of Canada struck down the previous law in 1988 as unconstitutionalbecause it violated women’s bodily autonomy. The law was never replaced and the medicalprofession regulates abortion the same way as for other healthcare. The poster lists the many harms of a law
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Study: 100% of patients who were denied care oppose “Conscientious Objection”
Belief-based care denial harms patients seeking reproductive care Healthcare providers in Canada are allowed by professional associations to deny services on the basis of their personal beliefs or conscience. But allowing healthcare providers to deny care based on their personal beliefs creates barriers to accessing necessary health services. Policymakers and clinicians should reform regulations with
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Poster: Belief-Based Care Denial – Let’s Change the Terms of the Debate
Sep 20, 2024 We should ditch the misleading phrase “conscientious objection,” which has become nothing more than an anti-choice propaganda term. Let’s adopt the term belief-based care denial instead. Why should society allow belief-based care denial when we have clear evidence of its harms and of the necessity of access to abortion? Supporting it just
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Restricting Anti-Abortion Speech – Legal Strategies and Caselaw
September 2024By Ceilidh Feetham, University of New Brunswick, Faculty of Law, on behalf of Pro Bono Students CanadaThis report provides city decision-makers with the legal information regarding the regulation of anti-abortion messaging. It outlines the current legal framework upon which municipalities may base decisions on how to regulate anti-abortion messaging in public spaces. Read: Examining