The new novel "What Friends Are For" sheds light on the history of abortion in Canada. Harriet Zaidman's book is a “nuanced, important, and unfortunately timely novel set in 1983 at the height of Canada’s abortion debate, following a young girl grappling with an unplanned pregnancy.”

Our new position paper on Reproductive Care Violence - which is any form of harm, coercion, neglect, or discrimination that occurs in the context of accessing, providing, or withholding reproductive health services. www.arcc-cdac.ca/media/110-re...

The UCP in Alberta is hoping to pass resolutions at their upcoming annual convention. Including to ban flying of rainbow and transgender pride flags (by gov't, schools, uni's), stop Covid vaccines, and stop publicly funding later abortions except when there’s “serious risk to the mother’s health."

We are switching our language from "Crisis Pregnancy Centre" to "Unregulated Pregnancy Centre". Here's why... 🧵

Women were excluded from clinical trails until 1993 in the U.S. and 1997 in Canada. @namshine.bsky.social talks with @docmcohen.medsky.social (@queensuhealth.bsky.social) about excluding women has shaped medicine and harmed women’s health, on (MIS)Treated: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

L’histoire du docteur Henry Morgentaler fait l’objet d’une bande dessinée parue récemment. Dans les années 1970, ce médecin a commencé à pratiquer des avortements de façon illégale. Il a été arrêté et mis en prison. Anne-Marie Dussault retrouve le scénariste et la journaliste. Video - 11 minutes.

The federal budget failed to include the req't for transparency from unregulated pregnancy centres, sending the signal that protecting reproductive rights from deceptive practices is not a government priority. Please email your MP today using this tool from @bchumanist.ca

Contraception wasn't in the federal budget.😡 “Without strong federal leadership to sign and fund deals with the remaining provinces and territories, millions of Canadians will continue to face barriers when trying to access life-saving and life-changing medicine.” —Teale Phelps Bondaroff, AccessBC.

Two-thirds of pharmacies in British Columbia can provide the abortion pill within 3 days, but some people need to call several pharmacies to find the drug, especially in larger urban centres.

In our new paper, ARCC calls for a shift toward a self-managed abortion model in Canada that expands access to care via increased telehealth service, pharmacist dispensing, and midwife prescribing. www.arcc-cdac.ca/media/29-sel... With support from @womenonweb.bsky.social Image from Trustwomen.org

Martha Paynter in NB: “We didn’t expect there to be a new clinic right away. The demand for procedural abortion is falling year over year, and the resources...to start a freestanding clinic would be quite significant.” The growing use of medication abortions has offset procedural abortion.

Yesterday's budget failed the people. While pre-budget funding announcements gave some funding to support WAGE and 2S/LBGTQ+ communities, the budget itself ignores reproductive justice, equality, health, Pharmacare, climate justice, and more. Check out Action Canada's eloquent statement.

76% of Quebecers want free access to contraception, according to a Léger poll commissioned by Québec solidaire (QS). Party co-spokesperson Ruba Ghazal urged the Legault government to adopt the measure.

La grande majorité des Québécois (76 %) souhaiterait avoir un accès gratuit à la contraception, selon un sondage Léger commandé par Québec solidaire (QS) et rendu public lundi.

This is devastating news for PPO and the Ottawa community. So many people and healthcare agencies depend on PPO. As Frederique Chabot of Action Canada said: "I think people sometimes don't really understand the role that organizations like Planned Parenthood Ottawa play in a health-care ecosystem."

"Nous sommes des femmes, des médecins, des infirmières qui pratiquent dans les cliniques d’interruptions volontaires de grossesse. Nous sommes profondément inquiètes des conséquences que la loi 2 aura sur l’accès à l’avortement et sur la valorisation de cette pratique."

Feeling spooked by anti-abortion misinformation? 👻 We have conjured up tons of information about abortion in Canada - including how and where to access care, anti-abortion orgs to avoid, and all the facts you need to beat the scaries of abortion stigma. 🪄 www.arcc-cdac.ca/resources

Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) leased space to Campaign Life Coalition, Canada’s national anti-choice group, from 2016 to 2020. TMU says it never had a direct relationship or contract with the group, and the previous owners required that existing tenants could stay in the building until 2020.

Carol-Ann Kack: "Oui, protéger le droit à l’avortement est crucial. Mais le faire dans un texte symbolique sans effets juridiques clairs et qui peut ouvrir la porte à des reculs créera un faux sentiment de sécurité. Les droits des femmes méritent mieux qu’un geste politique."

Lynn Paulin is childless by choice and had her fallopian tubes removed: "I'm not missing out on the joys of parenthood. I’m watching it unfold around me every day, and then getting eight hours of uninterrupted sleep every night."

L'historienne et autrice Marie-Laurence Raby souligne que le livre vise à raconter tous les efforts derrière cette cause portée par de nombreux groupes. Raby est l’autrice du livre « Braver l’interdit - Histoire féministe de l’avortement au Québec ».

Marie-Andrée Chouinard : Offrir un cadre législatif sur l’avortement, même protecteur, c’est ouvrir la porte à un processus d’érosion.

L'utilisation des échographies pratiquées dans les centres de grossesse inquiète des experts de la santé reproductive. La Coalition pour le droit à l'avortement du Canada croit que les échographies ont pour objectif de dissuader les femmes de se faire avorter.

The Social Health Lab at UBC is currently recruiting for a research study to understand how hormones affect teens’ health & social behaviour. Children ages 13-15 (w/ parental permission), and assigned female at birth (any gender) are welcome. Honorarium provided! blogs.ubc.ca/teenstudy/pa...

What makes abortion inaccessible for some in Canada? How did the country's only national abortion charity lose 90% of it's core funding? TK Pritchard, Executive Director of Abortion Care Canada joins Choice Chat to discuss the current landscape of abortion care and the complexities of access. 🎧

More than a year has passed since Bill C-64, the Pharmacare Act, received Royal Assent. Pharmaceutical companies have concerns that the program could compromise drug access - but it's hard to understand or believe them.

A review of the new book: The A Word: A Global History of the Abortion Struggle, by Elizabeth Casillas and Higinia Garay (published in Canada). It's a reminder that access to abortion remains precarious in much of the world. Even in Canada, access is limited for those outside major urban centres.

La stérilisation contrainte de personnes appartenant à des collectivités autochtones, et le refus opposé aux personnes cisgenres blanches qui demandent une stérilisation, témoignent d’un contrôle systémique ancré dans des idéologies racistes, sexistes et colonialistes.

Canada has 7 anti-choice pregnancy centres that offer recreational, non-diagnostic ultrasounds. This is a misuse of medical imaging equipment by organizations with no medical oversight or accountability. www.arcc-cdac.ca/media/2025/1...

"Crisis pregnancy centres are by their very nature deceptive,” said Teale Bondaroff of the BC Humanist Association “These fake clinics prey on people in vulnerable situations, and their entire purpose is to dissuade people from choosing an abortion. ”

Des groupes féministes et pro-choix affirment qu'une clause sur le droit à l’avortement dans un projet de constitution du Québec pourrait affaiblir les droits des femmes.

Des groupes féministes et pro-choix affirment qu'une clause sur le droit à l’avortement dans un projet de constitution du Québec pourrait affaiblir les droits des femmes. (podcast : 9 minutes)

"Nous sommes en droit de demander ce qui n’a pas été compris par le gouvernement. Pourquoi le ministre de la Justice insiste-t-il pour fragiliser le droit des femmes ?"

This is a terrible story of stigma and delay/refusal of care at a Catholic hospital in Nova Scotia, where Cherise Basque sought care for heavy bleeding after taking abortion pills.

"Abortion matters to me because it is the line that cannot be crossed, the last frontier of the self. To defend that line is to defend every other freedom that depends on bodily autonomy: the freedom to move, to express, to transition, to love, to exist without surveillance or sanction."

La plupart des Québécois est favorable à ce que le gouvernement légifère pour protéger le droit à l’avortement - 77 % des répondants se disent favorables à l'adoption de «d’outils légaux supplémentaires pour protéger le droit à l’avortement». Cela ne signifie pas qu'une législation est nécessaire.

Kelowna City Council has rubber-stamped another five years of permissive tax exemptions for church-owned lands and properties. The City pretends the exemptions boost social and cultural good when they're funding groups that publicly rally against reproductive rights and bodily autonomy.

The FQPN (Fédération du Québec pour le planning des naissances) says it's not necessary to protect abortion in Quebec's charter, as abortion is already protected under the Health Care Act and federal Charter of Rights and Freedoms, along with five Supreme Court rulings.

Quebec's new bill defines a set of "founding principles," including secularism, the equality of men and women, the right to abortion, and the status of French as the only common language of Quebec. It would enshrine access to medical assistance in dying in Quebec's Charter of human rights.

"All Canadians, regardless of where they live, deserve access to the contraception that they need to control and plan their reproductive health futures. Now is the time to implement universal, first-payer coverage for contraception for all Canadians."

Our new Position Paper: ARCC advocates for expanding the role of midwives in abortion access by giving them prescribing authority for medication abortion; and we recognize ad promote the value of traditional Indigenous healing practices for midwivery. www.arcc-cdac.ca/media/12-wid...

Meet Emma Cowman, a U of Manitoba graduate student whose research focuses on reproductive justice and the experiences of 2SLGBTQIA+ people who have accessed or tried to access to abortion care in Manitoba. And she's an ARCC volunteer!

Lawless: Abortion Under Complete Decriminalization is on tour across Canada. For full event details visit: fernwoodpublishing.ca/events

Awesome webinar coming up from @eff.org and @plancpills.bsky.social discussing experiences of censorship from repro health groups in the U.S. 📣

Le gouvernement a adopté une motion pour condamner les positions qualifiées d’intolérantes par le NPD, du groupe de pression chrétien conservateur ARPA. Pour certains députés, il s’agit d’une stratégie néo-démocrate pour détourner l’attention de questions beaucoup plus pressantes comme l’économie.

Congrats to the BC NDP for embarrassing and owning the Conservatives, in a successful motion vote against the Conservatives' spring session at Parliament hosting extremist group ARPA. The Con MLAs tried to dismiss human rights - so many things more important than that!

Thank you to Marjorie Michel, Canada’s Minister of Health! UBC Faculty of Medicine researchers have received more than $4.3 million from the government to address barriers to abortion access for underserved populations.

On ne peut éviter de mentionner le nom du Dr Morgentaler lorsqu’on parle de l’avortement au Québec. Son parcours fait l’objet d’une importante bande dessinée à paraître dans les prochains jours.

Congrats to the Yukon Status of Women Council! They got a grant of over $330,000 to launch launching a territory-wide survey to better understand the barriers to accessing abortion services.

Tell Mark Carney to deliver pharmacare to all Canadians—not just those who live where deals were signed before he became Prime Minister. Right now, insulin and contraception prescriptions aren't currently available to all Canadians. If you think that’s wrong, please send a letter!