On Tuesday, word broke that Ottawa's mayor Jim Watson had signed a proclamation declaring today, May 12, as "Respect For Life Day." This was to honour the annual "March For Life" anti-choice/anti-abortion march that is taking place today.
reproductive rights
Abortion Rights: Access and Barriers
Date: Saturday, February 9, 2013 - 7:00pm
Location
Beit Zatoun
612 Markham Street
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 39' 53.2584" N, 79° 24' 44.6832" W
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Join the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly for a 'coffee house' discussion on:
Abortion Rights: Access and Barriers
Introduced by Rachael Johnstone
Saturday, February 9th
7:00 PM
Beit Zatoun612 Markham Street (just south of Bloor, near Bathurst subway station).
Followed by Q and A and discussion.
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Anti-choice researchers recently published a dangerously flawed study that examined various factors associated with Chile's declining maternal mortality rate, and concluded -- incredibly -- that the legal status of abortion has no influence on maternal deaths in Chile, a country that completely prohibited abortion for any reason in 1989.
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Babies Abducted in Canadian Hospitals
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Motion 312: An ignorant affront to global human rights standards
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