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1 online resource : color illustrations |
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Introduction: Without Apology / Shannon Stettner -- 1 Abortion in Canada: A History / Shannon Stettner -- Part I Speaking from Experience. 2 Giving Voice to the Unspeakable / Judith Mintz -- 3 T.A. / Clarissa Hurley -- 4 But I Kept All These Things, and Pondered Them in My Heart / Jess Woolford -- 5 Keep It Small / Evey Hornbeck -- 6 A Bad Law and a Bold Woman / Bernadette Wagner -- 7 I Don't Blame the Abortion / Rebecca -- 8 [untitled] / Mackenzie |
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Part II Abortion Rights Activism. 9 The Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics: Reproductive Freedom and the Campaign to Overturn the Federal Abortion Law / Carolyn Egan and Linda Gardner -- 10 The Radical Handmaids and Stephen Harper's War on Women, Battleground 2012: Reopening the Abortion Debate / Aalya Ahmad / Radical Handmaids -- 11 Arts4choice.com / Martha Solomon -- 12 "We Can Get There Faster If We All Move Together": The Birth of a Reproductive Justice Academic Activist / Colleen MacQuarrie -- 13 We Need to See Change: One Woman's Motivations for Pushing Waves on Prince Edward Island / Sadie Roberts -- 14 Pro-Choice Organizing on Canadian University Campuses: Unpacking the Debate over Free Speech Versus Hate Speech / Kelly Holloway |
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Part III Challenging Opposing Positions. 15 Blinded by the Right: My Past as an Anti-abortion Activist / Natalie Lochwin -- 16 One Woman's Evolving View of Abortion / Tracey L. Anderson -- 17 Pro-Choice for God's Sake / Shannon Pinkney -- 18 Abortion Commentary / Laura Wershler -- 19 Pro-abortion and Proud: Exploring Alternative Reproductive Justice Labels / Laura Gillespie -- 20 Same as It Ever Was: Anti-Choice Extremism and the "Third Way" / Jane Cawthorne -- 21 Women over Ideology / Nick Van der Graaf |
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Part IV Practitioners and Clinic Support. 22 Lessons from Life in Abortion Care / Peggy Cooke -- 23 "Do you think I will go to hell for this?" / Ruth Miller -- 24 The Counsellor's Voice / Erin Mullan -- 25 Empathy: Whose Choice Is OK? / Ellen Wiebe -- 26 Therapeutic Abortion / Sterling Haynes -- 27 "I am proud to provide abortions" / Evan James |
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Part V Sites of Struggle. 28 The Choice Between Rights and Revolution / Karen Stote -- 29 Sex Selection Abortions: The Politics of Race in Multicultural Canada / Bindy Kang -- 30 The Public Pregnancy: How the Fetal Debut and the Public Health Paradigm Affect Pregnancy Practice / Jen Rinaldi -- 31 A Harm-Reduction Approach to Abortion / Shannon Dea -- The Unfinished Revolution / Shannon Stettner |
| Summary |
Until the late 1960s, the authorities on abortion were for the most part men--politicians, clergy, lawyers, physicians, all of whom had an interest in regulating women's bodies. Even today, when we hear women speak publicly about abortion, the voices are usually those of the leaders of women's and abortion rights organizations, women who hold political office, and, on occasion, female physicians. We also hear quite frequently from spokeswomen for anti-abortion groups. Rarely, however, do we hear the voices of ordinary women--women whose lives have been in some way touched by abortion. Their thoughts typically owe more to human circumstance than to ideology, and without them, we run the risk of thinking and talking about the issue of abortion only in the abstract. Without Apology seeks to address this issue by gathering the voices of activists, feminists, and scholars as well as abortion providers and clinic support staff alongside the stories of women whose experience with abortion is more personal. With the particular aim of moving beyond the polarizing rhetoric that has characterized the issue of abortion and reproductive justice for so long, Without Apology is an engrossing and arresting account that will promote both reflection and discussion.-- Publisher description |
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memoir |
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pro-choice |
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reproductive justice |
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clinicians |
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biography |
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anti-abortion |
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abortion providers |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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English |
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Online resource; title from PDF version (Library and Archives Canada Electronic Collection, viewed June 25, 2021) |
| Subject |
Abortion -- Canada
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Abortion -- Canada -- History
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Abortion -- Canada -- Anecdotes
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Abortion
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Abortion.
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Abortion rights.
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Women.
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Anecdotes
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stettner, Shannon, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781771991605 |
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1771991607 |
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9781771991612 |
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1771991615 |
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1771991593 |
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9781771991599 |
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1771991623 |
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9781771991629 |
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