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Safe access zones at abortion clinics are constitutional and ensure privacy and safety
Statement by Joyce Arthur and Paige Mason, Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada* (PDF version) Bill 207, the proposed safe access zone law[i] to protect Manitobans’ access to abortion care, is constitutional....
Joint Statement: Sexual and Reproductive Health Advocates Call for Free Prescription Contraception on World Contraception Day 2021
Access to contraception is a human right. Universal coverage for contraception empowers people, improves health outcomes, and leads to significant cost savings. This World Contraception Day, September 26, 2021, the...
Erin O’Toole is still not pro-choice
NATIONAL – The abortion issue is still the “stinking albatross” around the neck of the Conservative Party leader, because about 81% of Conservative incumbents running in the federal election have...
Revoke Pandemic Wage Subsidies from Anti-Abortion Groups
In two petitions sent today to the Liberal government, the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC) is demanding that the Finance Minister revoke funding given under the Canada Emergency Wage...
National Abortion Rights Group Intervenes in Legal Case on Anti-choice Advertising
(NATIONAL) – On Wednesday, the Ontario Divisional Court granted intervenor status to the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada in a legal case between Guelph and Area Right to Life, and...
Manitoba Government Guilty of Gender Discrimination and Endangering Health
Manitoba’s anti-choice government has removed reproductive health from the health minister’s portfolio, and transferred it to a minister with no authority over healthcare delivery or funding. This is discriminatory on...
Legal Challenge Launched Against New Brunswick for Limiting Abortion Access
January 7, 2021 New Brunswick’s illegal payment regulation, which restricts funded abortions to hospitals, was hastily enacted in 1994 when Dr. Henry Morgentaler first opened the clinic which we now...
Joint Statement: Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada and AccessBC Campaign support free prescription contraception
Media Advisory (PDF version) Access to contraception is a human right. Universal coverage for contraception empowers people, improves health outcomes, and leads to significant cost savings. For World Contraception Day,...
Stop Bill 207: “Abandoning Patients Act
Is Unconstitutional and Dangerous ALBERTA – A bill introduced on Nov 7 in the Alberta legislature is blatantly unconstitutional because it legalizes discrimination against vulnerable groups on the basis of...