The Women are Coming Abortion, Caravan

Download or read book The Women are Coming Abortion, Caravan written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As author Karin Wells (2020) shows in her new book, The Abortion Caravan: When Women Shut Down Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose, even the women of the Caravan did not realize the depth of their impact for many years. [...] Everywhere, young people questioned and critiqued the status quo and the prevailing culture, and women stood in the front ranks. [...] In 1970, those of us in the Vancouver Women's Caucus put forward a proposal to women's liberation groups across the country: "Join together in a Caravan from the West coast to Ottawa demanding abortion as a right for all women and its removal from the Criminal Code!" (Wells 2020: Appendix 2). [...] Ultimately, we forced the closure of Parliament for the first time in Canadian history! Our work had only begun, but the right to abortion was now squarely on the agenda of the country from coast to coast. [...] While the Vancouver Women's Caucus (VWC) - from which the Caravan emerged - published writing that recognized the "double oppression" of Indigenous women, girls and two-spirited people and organized with the Native Alliance for Red Power in British Columbia, none of the women who set out on the Caravan were Indigenous.