Further reading:

Institute for Gender and the Economy

The Gender Pay Gap - Canadian Women’s Foundation: 

The Pandemic delivered a surprise to Nordic countries: a baby boom

Fifty Years Later: Child Care and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women

Iceland shows ways to parental equality with fathers leave

All the facts you need to know about paternity leave in Canada

Being denied abortion has lasting impacts on health and finances

The facts: women and pandemics

Take Action:

Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights has created an AMAZING LIST of the many ways you can support reproductive rights locally, nationally, and globally!

Resources:

Myabortionoptions.ca offers a host of resources and tools for abortion in Canada.

List of abortion services in Canada – Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada 

Action Canada Access Line: a toll-free, confidential phone and text line. Call 1-888-642-2725 or text 613-800-6757 Monday to Sunday between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. ET: 

The National Abortion Federation Hotline Fund: the largest national, toll-free, multilingual hotline for abortion referrals and financial assistance in the U.S. and Canada. Hotline: 1-800-772-9100 / Referral Line 1-877-257-0012

Choice Connect app helps connect you to abortion providers in your area

Further reading: 

Access BC

Black Physicians of Canada

Henrietta Lacks

The Mothers of Modern Gynecology - Anarcha, Lucy, Betsy 

Tuskegee Syphilis Study

LA Times - Pregnant people of colour more likely to get procedures they didn’t consent to, study finds

National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health - Racism and Health Equity

Perspectives on Health and Well Being in Black Communities in Toronto

Womb Care

BIPOC Women’s Health Network

Further reading:

Reproductive Justice New Brunswick

National Aboriginal Council of Midwives

Sister Song - history of reproductive justice 

An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women by Karen Stote 

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph

The Secret Life of Canada - S2: The Indian Act 

The Midwives with Mettle in Nunavik 

Take Action:

Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights has created an AMAZING LIST of the many ways you can support reproductive rights locally, nationally, and globally!

Resources:

Myabortionoptions.ca offers a host of resources and tools for abortion in Canada.

List of abortion services in Canada – Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada

Action Canada Access Line: a toll-free, confidential phone and text line. Call 1-888-642-2725 or text 613-800-6757 Monday to Sunday between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. ET

The National Abortion Federation Hotline Fund: the largest national, toll-free, multilingual hotline for abortion referrals and financial assistance in the U.S. and Canada. Hotline: 1-800-772-9100 / Referral Line 1-877-257-0012

Choice Connect app helps connect you to abortion providers in your area

The Indian Residential Schools Crisis Line (1-800-721-0066) is available 24 hours a day for anyone experiencing pain or distress as a result of his or her residential school experience

Further reading:

Learn more about Dr Dustin Costescu and his practice 

FAQs about The Abortion Pill (Mifegymiso) by Action Canada 

Article: Access to surgical abortions in northwest BC a concern due to doctor shortages 

Article: The Complicated Life of the Abortion Pill 

Take Action:

Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights has created an AMAZING LIST of the many ways you can support reproductive rights locally, nationally, and globally!

Resources:

Myabortionoptions.ca offers a host of resources and tools for abortion in Canada.

www.howtouseabortionpill.org provides a detailed instruction manual on how to use abortion pills, including information on steps to be taken depending on individual health needs (e.g. if the person taking the pills is breastfeeding, has an IUD, has anemia, etc.)

International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has a helpful 5-minute video about how abortion pills work

List of abortion services in Canada – Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada

 Action Canada Access Line: The Access Line is a toll-free, confidential phone and text line. Call 1-888-642-2725 or text 613-800-6757 Monday to Sunday between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. ET: 

The National Abortion Federation Hotline Fund operates the largest national, toll-free, multilingual hotline for abortion referrals and financial assistance in the U.S. and Canada. Hotline: 1-800-772-9100 / Referral Line 1-877-257-0012: https://nafcanada.org

Choice Connect app helps connect you to abortion providers in your area

Plan C is an organization that helps people in the US access medication abortion, particularly in the US 

Women on Web is an international online abortion service that provide safe, accessible and affordable online abortion care to women and people around the world.

Further reading: 

Concrete actions Canada needs to take to ensure equal access to abortion and reproductive choice – The Conversation, by RN and abortion trainer Martha Paynter 

Canada should focus on abortion access, not legislation – The Guardian, a piece by Aborsh’s story editor Tracey Lindeman

After Morgentaler: The Politics of Abortion in Canada by Rachael Johnstone: 

The 1988 Morgentaler Supreme Court decision

Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics

Take Action

Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights has created an AMAZING LIST of the many ways you can support reproductive rights locally, nationally, and globally!

Resources:

Myabortionoptions.ca offers a host of resources and tools for abortion in Canada.

List of abortion services in Canada – Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada

Action Canada Access Line: The Access Line is a toll-free, confidential phone and text line. Call 1-888-642-2725 or text 613-800-6757 Monday to Sunday between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. ET: 

The National Abortion Federation Hotline Fund operates the largest national, toll-free, multilingual hotline for abortion referrals and financial assistance in the U.S. and Canada. Hotline: 1-800-772-9100 / Referral Line 1-877-257-0012: https://nafcanada.org

Choice Connect app helps connect you to abortion providers in your area

Further Reading

The Fruit Machine - Secret Life of Canada

Queering ’69: The Recriminalization of Homosexuality in Canada

Learn more about the We Demand protest

 Learn about the White Paper, which attempted to abolish previous legal documents relating to Indigenous peoples in Canada, including the Indian Act and treaties.

Learn about Everett Klippert,  the only Canadian ever declared a dangerous sexual offender and sentenced to what amounted to life in prison, for no other reason than he was a gay man. 

Take Action

Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights have created an AMAZING LIST of the many ways you can support reproductive rights locally, nationally, and globally!

Follow the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity

Resources:

Myabortionoptions.ca offers a host of resources and tools for abortion in Canada.

 List of abortion services in Canada – Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada

Action Canada Access Line: The Access Line is a toll-free, confidential phone and text line. It is available for questions about sexual health, pregnancy options, abortion, safer sex and referrals to sexual health providers. Call 1-888-642-2725 or text 613-800-6757 Monday to Sunday between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. ET:  

The National Abortion Federation Hotline Fund operates the largest national, toll-free, multilingual hotline for abortion referrals and financial assistance in the U.S. and Canada. Hotline: 1-800-772-9100 / Referral Line 1-877-257-0012

Choice Connect app helps connect you to abortion providers in your area

Further reading:

Follow Darrah Teitel on Twitter @Darrahteitel

Heroes In My Head by Judy Rebick

Anti-69: The mythologies surrounding the 1969 Criminal Code reform

 The Abortion Caravan of 1970

Resources:

 List of abortion services in Canada – Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada

Action Canada Access Line: The Access Line is a toll-free, confidential phone and text line. It is available for questions about sexual health, pregnancy options, abortion, safer sex and referrals to sexual health providers. Call 1-888-642-2725 or text 613-800-6757 Monday to Sunday between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. ET:

The National Abortion Federation Hotline Fund operates the largest national, toll-free, multilingual hotline for abortion referrals and financial assistance in the U.S. and Canada. Hotline: 1-800-772-9100 / Referral Line 1-877-257-0012

Choice Connect app helps connect you to abortion providers in your area

The Pro-Choice Society of Lethbridge and Southern Alberta has a confidential 24-hour hotline for accurate and non-judgmental information on abortion and birth control, as well as financial and transportation assistance to access reproductive care. You can call them at 1-587-257-6833.

Further reading (and watching):

 Abortion: From Controversy to Civility | Stephanie Gray | Talks at Google

What’s the situation with Crisis Pregnancy Centres - Action Canada

Lethbridge Pregnancy Care Centre 2019 Annual Report

 Anti-choice organizations barred from Canada Summer Jobs Program

Catholics For Choice

Abortion bans and restrictions 2022 — Guttmacher Institute

 2021: The worst year for abortion rights in almost half a century

People of all religions use birth control and have abortions:

The Turn Away Study

Abortion & Ben Shapiro — Philosophy Tube

Resources:

List of abortion services in Canada – Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada:

 Action Canada Access Line: The Access Line is a toll-free, confidential phone and text line. It is available for questions about sexual health, pregnancy options, abortion, safer sex and referrals to sexual health providers. Call 1-888-642-2725 or text 613-800-6757 Monday to Sunday between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. ET

The National Abortion Federation Hotline Fund operates the largest national, toll-free, multilingual hotline for abortion referrals and financial assistance in the U.S. and Canada. Hotline: 1-800-772-9100 / Referral Line 1-877-257-0012

Choice Connect app helps connect you to abortion providers in your area

 Further reading:

Canadian Civil Liberties Association - New Brunswick Abortion Rights

Access at a Glance: Abortion Services in Canada - Action Canada

Toronto-based artist, Rachel Cairns, shares her abortion story while speaking with experts and activists about the state of Canadian reproductive rights today.