Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada
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Canada's only national, political pro-choice group, advocating for reproductive justice for all 🦋
https://www.arcc-cdac.ca
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Aux dernières nouvelles, l’avortement sexo-sélectif est présent au Canada, mais Radio-Canada a découvert que le phénomène ne fait l’objet d’aucun suivi, ni du gouvernement fédéral ni des provinces. Même les chercheurs peinent à étudier l’évolution de cette pratique controversée.
L’avortement sexo-sélectif, une question ouverte au Canada
Les avortements sexo-sélectifs semblent diminuer dans d’autres pays. On ignore si c’est aussi le cas au Canada, qui ne fait pas de suivi du phénomène.
ici.radio-canada.ca
December 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Aux dernières nouvelles, l’avortement sexo-sélectif est présent au Canada, mais Radio-Canada a découvert que le phénomène ne fait l’objet d’aucun suivi, ni du gouvernement fédéral ni des provinces. Même les chercheurs peinent à étudier l’évolution de cette pratique controversée.
🚨CENSORSHIP ALERT🚨: Recently Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) removed and/or severely restricted the accounts of over 50 reproductive health, and LGBTQIA2S+ advocacy organizations globally according to The Guardian.
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:14 AM
🚨CENSORSHIP ALERT🚨: Recently Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) removed and/or severely restricted the accounts of over 50 reproductive health, and LGBTQIA2S+ advocacy organizations globally according to The Guardian.
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This new book is a call to action and a guide for building an inclusive and intersectional reproductive justice movement. Loretta J. Ross and Marlene Gerber Fried provide a history of abortion politics through a reproductive justice framework that centers those most vulnerable.
Abortion and Reproductive Justice by Marlene Fried, Loretta Ross - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
December 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This new book is a call to action and a guide for building an inclusive and intersectional reproductive justice movement. Loretta J. Ross and Marlene Gerber Fried provide a history of abortion politics through a reproductive justice framework that centers those most vulnerable.
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If you’re thinking of doing some reading over the holidays, check out this Abortion Books site with over 600 books categorized by genre, country, and language (no anti-choice books) abortion-books.info
December 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If you’re thinking of doing some reading over the holidays, check out this Abortion Books site with over 600 books categorized by genre, country, and language (no anti-choice books) abortion-books.info
Looking for a last minue gift for the pro-choice activist in your life? 📣🎁
Gift them an ARCC membership and connect them to all things abortion + reproductive rights in Canada!
arcc-cdac.ca/donate
Gift them an ARCC membership and connect them to all things abortion + reproductive rights in Canada!
arcc-cdac.ca/donate
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December 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Looking for a last minue gift for the pro-choice activist in your life? 📣🎁
Gift them an ARCC membership and connect them to all things abortion + reproductive rights in Canada!
arcc-cdac.ca/donate
Gift them an ARCC membership and connect them to all things abortion + reproductive rights in Canada!
arcc-cdac.ca/donate
Exciting news! Vancouver Coastal Health has announced a new clinic opening in early 2027, an amalgamation between Everywoman’s Health Centre and Willow Clinic. The new clinic will bring all services together under one roof, enhancing client care and increasing capacity.
VCH improving access to reproductive health care | Vancouver Coastal Health
Vancouver, B.C. – Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) is committed to providing safe, quality care for individuals accessing sexual and reproductive health services. In partnership with Everywoman’s Health...
www.vch.ca
December 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Exciting news! Vancouver Coastal Health has announced a new clinic opening in early 2027, an amalgamation between Everywoman’s Health Centre and Willow Clinic. The new clinic will bring all services together under one roof, enhancing client care and increasing capacity.
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Ruth Evans has died. She was a leader in the campaign to remove abortion from the Criminal Code of Canada, co-founding the Association for the Repeal of the Canadian Abortion Law.
Ruth Evans fought for women’s rights and found fun ways to encourage her grandsons to read
Christened Sybil Ruth Blenkinsop, she was known all her life as ‘Stumpy’ by her English family, a childhood nickname that stuck
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Ruth Evans has died. She was a leader in the campaign to remove abortion from the Criminal Code of Canada, co-founding the Association for the Repeal of the Canadian Abortion Law.
Ruth Evans has died. She was a leader in the campaign to remove abortion from the Criminal Code of Canada, co-founding the Association for the Repeal of the Canadian Abortion Law.
Ruth Evans fought for women’s rights and found fun ways to encourage her grandsons to read
Christened Sybil Ruth Blenkinsop, she was known all her life as ‘Stumpy’ by her English family, a childhood nickname that stuck
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Ruth Evans has died. She was a leader in the campaign to remove abortion from the Criminal Code of Canada, co-founding the Association for the Repeal of the Canadian Abortion Law.
We're hosting a giveaway over on our Instagram page to celebrate 15,000 followers! 🥳
See the post for details and how to enter!
See the post for details and how to enter!
ARCC-CDAC on Instagram: "🎉 15K giveaway 🎉
As a huge thank you to the 15,000 of you who are dedicated to protecting reproductive rights, we're hosting a giveaway! 💛
Prizes:
📖 A copy of @marthapaynter...
54 likes, 16 comments - abortionrightscoalitioncan on December 8, 2025: "🎉 15K giveaway 🎉
As a huge thank you to the 15,000 of you who are dedicated to protecting reproductive rights, we're hosting a...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
We're hosting a giveaway over on our Instagram page to celebrate 15,000 followers! 🥳
See the post for details and how to enter!
See the post for details and how to enter!
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Overnight, past 2 a.m., the Alberta United Conservative Party passed Bill 9, a bill to **strip away the right to life of trans youth** in order to impose on them a gender-affirming care ban.
We’re assisting to the beginning of a humanitarian crisis, in Canada, in real time.
We’re assisting to the beginning of a humanitarian crisis, in Canada, in real time.
December 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Overnight, past 2 a.m., the Alberta United Conservative Party passed Bill 9, a bill to **strip away the right to life of trans youth** in order to impose on them a gender-affirming care ban.
We’re assisting to the beginning of a humanitarian crisis, in Canada, in real time.
We’re assisting to the beginning of a humanitarian crisis, in Canada, in real time.
Les voix demandant le retrait de l’article sur l’avortement du projet de constitution du gouvernement Legault s’accumulent. Le Conseil du statut de la femme s’y est ajouté mardi. « L’avortement est reconnu dans l’ensemble du Canada comme tout autre soin de santé : il doit continuer à en être ainsi »
De plus en plus de groupes demandent à Jolin-Barrette de reculer sur l’avortement
Le Conseil du statut de la femme et l’Association des obstétriciens et gynécologues se sont ajoutés au concert des voix.
www.ledevoir.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Les voix demandant le retrait de l’article sur l’avortement du projet de constitution du gouvernement Legault s’accumulent. Le Conseil du statut de la femme s’y est ajouté mardi. « L’avortement est reconnu dans l’ensemble du Canada comme tout autre soin de santé : il doit continuer à en être ainsi »
« On ne comprend pas comment le gouvernement peut maintenir une position aussi ouvertement discriminatoire. Les conséquences sur la vie de ces femmes sont désastreuses », déplore Jess Legault, coordonnatrice générale de la Fédération du Québec pour le planning des naissances (FQPN).
Les femmes sans la RAMQ privées d’avortement au troisième trimestre
Le gouvernement du Québec justifie cette directive par un manque de ressources spécialisées.
www.ledevoir.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
« On ne comprend pas comment le gouvernement peut maintenir une position aussi ouvertement discriminatoire. Les conséquences sur la vie de ces femmes sont désastreuses », déplore Jess Legault, coordonnatrice générale de la Fédération du Québec pour le planning des naissances (FQPN).
Billboards with anti-abortion messages will soon be coming down in Kelowna. For many years, a local billboard company allowed the signs along Highway 97 through West Kelowna. but pressure from a local pro-choice advocate has led to a policy change.
Anti-abortion billboards in West Kelowna, B.C., coming down
Billboards with anti-abortion messages may soon be coming down in the Kelowna area. For many years, a local billboard company has allowed the signs along Highway 97 through West Kelowna. As Brady Stra...
www.cbc.ca
December 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Billboards with anti-abortion messages will soon be coming down in Kelowna. For many years, a local billboard company allowed the signs along Highway 97 through West Kelowna. but pressure from a local pro-choice advocate has led to a policy change.
Des « attitudes et discours anti-avortement » sont présents dans le réseau de la santé québécois, selon un rapport de recherche par la FQPN. Ses auteurs recommandent notamment de renforcer la formation universitaire médicale sur l’interruption volontaire de grossesse.
Des «attitudes anti-avortement» existent dans le réseau de la santé québécois
Une étude recommande notamment de renforcer la formation médicale sur le sujet.
www.ledevoir.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Des « attitudes et discours anti-avortement » sont présents dans le réseau de la santé québécois, selon un rapport de recherche par la FQPN. Ses auteurs recommandent notamment de renforcer la formation universitaire médicale sur l’interruption volontaire de grossesse.
Reproductive rights groups do NOT want the Quebec government to enshrine abortion rights in the province's proposed constitution. First, it's not really a constitution - it's a regular law that can be amended. And that would turn it into an anti-choice weapon to restrict abortion.
Why Quebec’s plan to enshrine abortion rights is raising alarms
Civil society groups are warning that the Legault government’s plan to enshrine abortion rights in Quebec’s proposed constitution could have unintended consequences.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Reproductive rights groups do NOT want the Quebec government to enshrine abortion rights in the province's proposed constitution. First, it's not really a constitution - it's a regular law that can be amended. And that would turn it into an anti-choice weapon to restrict abortion.
Créer une loi sur l’accès à l’avortement donnerait au contraire des munitions aux groupes anti-choix. Malgré des prétentions, elle resterait une loi comme les autres et pourrait être modifiée à majorité simple par n’importe quel gouvernement.
La CAQ menace (encore) le droit à l’avortement – Pivot
Avec le projet de loi 1 de Simon Jolin-Barrette, l’avortement est plus en péril qu’il ne l’a jamais été depuis sa décriminalisation en 1988.
pivot.quebec
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Créer une loi sur l’accès à l’avortement donnerait au contraire des munitions aux groupes anti-choix. Malgré des prétentions, elle resterait une loi comme les autres et pourrait être modifiée à majorité simple par n’importe quel gouvernement.
Christine St-Pierre, ministre de la Condition féminine de 2007 à 2012 :
L’attitude paternaliste du ministre Jolin-Barrette, qui dit «comprendre» les inquiétudes de tous ceux et celles qui lui demandent de faire marche arrière, est une insulte à leur intelligence.
L’attitude paternaliste du ministre Jolin-Barrette, qui dit «comprendre» les inquiétudes de tous ceux et celles qui lui demandent de faire marche arrière, est une insulte à leur intelligence.
Avortement: Monsieur Jolin-Barrette, qu’est-ce que vous n’avez pas encore compris?
Cette semaine s’ouvre le processus de consultation en commission parlementaire sur le projet de loi 1, Loi constitutionnelle de 2025 sur le Québec.
www.journaldemontreal.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Christine St-Pierre, ministre de la Condition féminine de 2007 à 2012 :
L’attitude paternaliste du ministre Jolin-Barrette, qui dit «comprendre» les inquiétudes de tous ceux et celles qui lui demandent de faire marche arrière, est une insulte à leur intelligence.
L’attitude paternaliste du ministre Jolin-Barrette, qui dit «comprendre» les inquiétudes de tous ceux et celles qui lui demandent de faire marche arrière, est une insulte à leur intelligence.
Congrats to our ally the BC Humanist Assoc. for ending anti-choice billboards in Kelowna BC! Some companies were accepting anti-choice ads but refusing pro-choice ads. Unfortunately, they still refuse pro-choice ads despite them meeting legal and advertising standards. Anti-choice ads do NOT.
Anti-abortion billboards gone from West Kelowna commute - West Kelowna News
The BC Humanist Association said in a story posted to their website this week that their members heard last spring about UBC Okanagan student Sophie Harm’s thwarted efforts to launch a counter message
www.castanet.net
December 7, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Congrats to our ally the BC Humanist Assoc. for ending anti-choice billboards in Kelowna BC! Some companies were accepting anti-choice ads but refusing pro-choice ads. Unfortunately, they still refuse pro-choice ads despite them meeting legal and advertising standards. Anti-choice ads do NOT.
This 5-minute video is a good overview of what’s happening in Quebec around abortion with Bill 1 (and also Bill 2). Pro-choice advocates fear if Quebec writes abortion back into the law, even with the goal of protecting it, it could backfire — pointing to the U.S. as an example of what can go wrong.
Why are abortion rights in Quebec’s constitution when even pro-choice groups don’t want that?
YouTube video by CBC News
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This 5-minute video is a good overview of what’s happening in Quebec around abortion with Bill 1 (and also Bill 2). Pro-choice advocates fear if Quebec writes abortion back into the law, even with the goal of protecting it, it could backfire — pointing to the U.S. as an example of what can go wrong.
Critics say that Quebec's constitution bill would erode human rights and limit dissent, and could reopen an unnecessary debate on abortion. Some civil society groups are calling for it to be withdrawn outright.
Quebec holds consultations on controversial proposed constitution | CBC News
A draft constitution tabled two months ago by the Quebec government was supposed to be a unifying declaration of Quebecers' common values, but it has instead been denounced as ill-conceived, divisive ...
www.cbc.ca
December 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Critics say that Quebec's constitution bill would erode human rights and limit dissent, and could reopen an unnecessary debate on abortion. Some civil society groups are calling for it to be withdrawn outright.
Le gouvernement Legault ne fait pas confiance aux tribunaux pour protéger le droit à l’avortement à long terme, a laissé entendre mercredi le ministre de la Justice, Simon Jolin-Barrette.
Jolin-Barrette craint que les tribunaux fassent reculer le droit à l’avortement
Le gouvernement Legault ne fait pas confiance aux tribunaux pour protéger le droit à l’avortement à long terme, a laissé entendre mercredi le ministre de la Justice, Simon Jolin-Barrette.
www.lapresse.ca
December 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Le gouvernement Legault ne fait pas confiance aux tribunaux pour protéger le droit à l’avortement à long terme, a laissé entendre mercredi le ministre de la Justice, Simon Jolin-Barrette.
Quebec's Legault government does not trust the courts to protect the right to abortion in the long term, said Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette, who wants to enshrine the right in his draft Quebec constitution. Women's groups, doctors, and lawyers disagree with him.
Jolin-Barrette fears courts will roll back the right to abortion
The Legault government does not trust the courts to protect the right to abortion in the long term, Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette suggested on Wednesday. He justified his desire to enshrine th...
montreal.citynews.ca
December 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Quebec's Legault government does not trust the courts to protect the right to abortion in the long term, said Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette, who wants to enshrine the right in his draft Quebec constitution. Women's groups, doctors, and lawyers disagree with him.
Two Quebec medical associations are warning that contraception, abortion, cervical cancer screening, pregnancy care, and gynecological exams will be seriously undermined by Bill 2.
Bill 2 will reduce women’s access to health care, two associations warn
Contraception, abortion, cervical cancer screening, pregnancy care and gynecological exams are among the women’s health services left in the blind spot of Bill 2, two Quebec medical associations warne...
montreal.citynews.ca
December 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Two Quebec medical associations are warning that contraception, abortion, cervical cancer screening, pregnancy care, and gynecological exams will be seriously undermined by Bill 2.
A good news story to celebrate! 🎉
ARCC members from Cowichan for Reproductive Rights succeeded in preventing municipal funds from going to an unregulated pregnancy centre on Vancouver Island.
🚨 Is your municipality funding UPCs in your area? Urge them to cut ties with anti-abortion orgs 📣
ARCC members from Cowichan for Reproductive Rights succeeded in preventing municipal funds from going to an unregulated pregnancy centre on Vancouver Island.
🚨 Is your municipality funding UPCs in your area? Urge them to cut ties with anti-abortion orgs 📣
www.arcc-cdac.ca
December 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A good news story to celebrate! 🎉
ARCC members from Cowichan for Reproductive Rights succeeded in preventing municipal funds from going to an unregulated pregnancy centre on Vancouver Island.
🚨 Is your municipality funding UPCs in your area? Urge them to cut ties with anti-abortion orgs 📣
ARCC members from Cowichan for Reproductive Rights succeeded in preventing municipal funds from going to an unregulated pregnancy centre on Vancouver Island.
🚨 Is your municipality funding UPCs in your area? Urge them to cut ties with anti-abortion orgs 📣
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Join us in our fight for abortion access for all 🔗 arcc-cdac.ca/donate
Your donations make a real, tangible impact on our advocacy and educational work in countering the anti-abortion movement and protecting reproductive rights in Canada. 💕
Join us in our fight for abortion access for all 🔗 arcc-cdac.ca/donate
Your donations make a real, tangible impact on our advocacy and educational work in countering the anti-abortion movement and protecting reproductive rights in Canada. 💕
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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