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M-312 Goes Down!

Radical Handmaids rally in Vancouver Tuesday by Jarrah Hodge As hoped and predicted, Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth’s anti-choice Motion-312 went down in flames in its final vote yesterday, losing...

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Feminists Disagree on Many Things but Abortion Can’t Be One of Them

by Jarrah Hodge Calgary Herald columnist Naomi Lakritz says Rona Ambrose is a feminist. #headdesk In her latest piece, which ran this past Tuesday, Lakritz argues Ambrose’s feminist credentials were...

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FFFF: Choice Matters

For those of you US readers who are voting next Tuesday and the rest of us around the world who are paying attention, here’s a pointed video on reproductive rights. And Pathfinder International shows...

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FFFF: Be Bro-Choice

Sarah Silverman brings the funny in this video for “Bros” about the importance of fighting for women’s reproductive rights. Be Bro-Choice: A Public Service Announcement from Sarah Silverman from Sarah...

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Celebrating 25 Years of Decriminalized Abortion in Canada

Last week American feminists and pro-choice activists celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision and on Monday January 28, Canadians will mark the 25th anniversary of the...

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Help “This is My Canadian Body” Reach Their Goal

by Jarrah Hodge Last year in the States, Jason Stefaniak worked with women of all ages and backgrounds to create the video “This is My Body”, which addressed issues ranging from abortion to cancer to...

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Vintage Pregnancy Advice from the Canadian Government

by Jarrah Hodge Thrift shopping with my mom and boyfriend in North Vancouver the other day I came across a real gem: a 1947 printing of the Canadian government’s handbook The Canadian Mother and Child,...

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April is Abortion Wellbeing Month

by Chanel Dubofsky It feels hard and strange to write about anything after what happened in Boston on Monday. In a piece for Colorlines, Riku Sen  wrote, “I’m so exhausted from the cycle of sorrow,...

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Why the Delay Approving RU486 in Canada?

by Jarrah Hodge Australia is well on its way to making publicly available mifepristone and misoprostol, two drugs that make up RU486, used for abortion up to 49 days after becoming pregnant. If you’ve...

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Ireland’s Abortion Legislation and Ongoing Denial of Choice

Irish anti-choice billboard by Shelly Mitchell. Shelly just graduated from National University of Ireland, Maynooth with a B.A in Sociology and History. She is commencing post-graduate studies in...

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A Closer Look at REAL Women of Canada

Photo of the Canadian Parliament buildings by Patricia Kmiec. Patricia Kmiec is a feminist blogger and historian specializing in the history of education, currently working on her PhD at OISE at the...

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My Reality: My Abortion Experience

“Never Going Back!” written in sidewalk chalk on pavement with a drawing of a coat hanger crossed out by Jane Person This afternoon I had an abortion. This is not a sentence I ever thought I would...

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Woodworth’s New Motion is Not About Abortion, and I’m the Queen of England

by Jarrah Hodge MP Stephen Woodworth must think we’re stupid. After introducing and failing to pass M-312 last year and insisting it wasn’t about abortion, he’s got a new motion now calling for the...

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Fredericton Morgentaler Clinic Forced To Close. How You Can Help.

by Jarrah Hodge Today the Morgentaler Clinic in Fredericton, New Brunswick announced it will be forced to close its doors at the end of July, after a 20-year long battle with the provincial and federal...

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This Is My Rally Cry: #NBProchoice

by Kathleen Pye. Originally posted at Fem2pt0. Cross-posted with the author’s permission. It takes a special kind of person to work at an Abortion Clinic. You need to possess just the right combination...

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Review: Obvious Child: The Pro-Choice Movie You’ve Waited For

So I saw Obvious Child. Written and Directed by Gillian Robespierre, it has been heralded as “the summer’s most important movie” from some feminists. I’m not sure if I’d go that far (because I can’t...

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FFFF: Hobby Lobby Make Your Own IUD!

Sandy Riccardi plays the fictional “Miss Sandy from Hobby Lobby” and teaches you how to make your very own IUD! //www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Nzm6qzkNc Transcript: Sandy: Hi! Welcome to Hobby Lobby’s...

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Take Action for Reproductive Justice in the Maritimes & Across Canada

Photo from Vancouver rally against M-312 in 2012, by Jarrah Hodge In April, when New Brunswick’s Morgentaler Clinic announced it would be forced to close, the barriers to accessing abortion in the...

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Pro-Choice Colouring Pages!

Roe v. Wade’s anniversary is quickly approaching, and in case you need something to get you in the mood to celebrate this landmark decision (that contemporary lawmakers continue to chip away at),...

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