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National feminist groups welcome long-awaited legal action on abortion access in New Brunswick

January 8, 2021

For Immediate Release A coalition of national feminist organizations welcomes the initiation of legal action by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association to fight the discriminatory and anti-choice regulation that prohibits the funding of abortion care outside of hospital settings in New Brunswick. In October 2020, Clinic 554, the only free-standing clinic providing surgical abortions in…

Feminist groups call for immediate action on abortion access in New Brunswick

September 25, 2020

For Immediate Release A coalition of feminist organizations is calling for the federal government and the government of New Brunswick to take immediate action in light of the imminent closure of Clinic 554 in Fredericton. The Fredericton clinic, the only free-standing clinic providing surgical abortions in the province, is set to close by the end…

NAWL calls for Rona Ambrose’s resignation as the the Minister Responsible for the Status of Women re M-312

September 9, 2012

September 28, 2012 Stephen Harper Office of the Prime Minister 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2 By e-mail: pm@pm.gc.ca cc Minister Ambrose: rona.ambrose.c1a@parl.gc.ca Re: Resignation of Rona Ambrose re M-312 The National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL), along with the undersigned organizations, joins the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada in demanding the…

Abortion and Reproductive Rights

October 15, 2006

Women’s reproductive rights, including the right to abortion, are increasingly under attack in North America. In 2006, the South Dakota Legislature voted a law that would make it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless it was necessary to save a woman’s life. The law makes no exception for cases of rape or…

Ratifying the American Convention on Human Rights: The Stakes for Women

November 1, 2003

Brief to the Legislative Committee on Bill C-43, An Act Respecting Abortion

February 15, 1990

This brief explains in detail why Bill C-43 is fundamentally flawed. Some of the reasons are that this is an inappropriate use of the criminal law, that it will open a door to legal harassment of women and doctors and that its provisions violate women’s Charter rights.…

A Response to Crimes Against the Foetus, the Law Reform Commission of Canada’s Working Paper #58

November 1, 1989

Takes issue with the Law Reform Commission’s proposal to create a crime of harm to or destruction of the foetus. Argues that the commission fails its own test for the criminalization of behaviour and that the commission displays little understanding of women’s rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.…

Maternal and Fetal Rights

February 1, 1989

Understanding Challenges to Roe v. Wade

February 1, 1987

Morgentaler et al v. the Queen: Summary of the Arguments Made by Defence Counsel on Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, October 1986

October 1, 1986

Update on the Abortion Law in Canada

August 1, 1985

An analysis of the legal issues arising out of Dr. Morgentaler’s trial in Toronto. Includes a chronological review of events that explain the 1985 state of the law, and the potential impact of the Charter on future challenges to anti-abortion laws.…

Abortion Law and Improved Abortion Services

September 1, 1982

Examination of the present laws relating to therapeutic abortions in Canada. Includes a historical account of the origins of the abortion law, its reform in Britain and in Canada.…

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