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Original Language:English
The Struggle for Choice Part 1 Abortion Caravan
The fivepart series Struggle For Choice examines a 17 year period of the abortion rights movement from the liberalization of the abortion law between 1969 and 1987 The tapes present the abortion rights issue in an overall political context Part One Abortion Caravan examines the Federal law changes in 1969 which allowed for the legal dissemination of birth control information and the legalization of abortion if performed in an accredited hospital and approved by a therapeutic abortion committee of three doctors it was not removed from the Criminal Code making abortion illegal if performed in freestanding clinics or without the approval of a committee Women responded to the limitations of the new law with demonstrations Participants in Abortion Caravan declare war on the Government of Canada and shut down Parliament for the first time in Canadas history
DirectorNancy Nicol
