Runner-up for the Vancity 2005 Book Prize
In 1970, the Abortion Caravan travelled from Vancouver to Ottawa to
demand legalization of "A Women's Right to Choose.' Nearly 500
women from across Canada joined them in dramatic actions on
Mother's Day weekend - causing the House of Commons to abruptly
adjourn in the midst of debate. However, the abortion law remained
in the Criminal Code for nearly two more decades. BC feminists
returned home and fought for repeal of the law, and to defeat
anti-abortion take-overs of public hospitals. It was illegal to
perform abortions in free-standing clinics.
When Dr. Henry Morgentaler won his case before the Canadian Supreme
Court in 1988, and abortion became fully legal, it took Vancouver
feminists only months to open BC's first abortion clinic.
'Everywoman's Health Centre' has survived against the odds
-blockades, break-ins, death threats, financial problems, and a
relentless anti-abortion court case. The whole social and political
structure of the province was put on tilt. The reactions of
government, hospitals, doctors, community organizations, political
parties, the labour movement, and above all, women, are the stuff
of this book. Winning Choice on Abortion tells all the stories,
from the personal to the political, from the'Abortion Caravan'
through the first year of 'Everywoman's Health Centre.'
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