Contents

Acknowledgements

Without Apology: An Introduction / Shannon Stettner

A Brief History of Abortion in Canada / Shannon Stettner

PART ONE SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE

An Abortion Palimpsest: Writing the Hidden Stories of Our Bodies / Judith Mintz

T.A. / Clarissa Hurley

But I Kept All These Things, and Pondered Them in My Heart / Jess Woolford

Keep It Small / E.K. Hornbeck

A Bad Law and a Bold Woman / Bernadette Wagner

A Lonely Ride / Kristen

[untitled] / Mackenzie

PART TWO ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISM

Reproductive Freedom: The Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics and the Campaign to Overturn the Federal Abortion Law / Carolyn Egan and Linda Gardner

Handmaids on the Hill: Defending Our Rights One Womb at a Time / Aalya Ahmad and the Radical Handmaids

Breaking the Silence Through Portrait and Story: Arts4Choice / Martha Solomon

“We Can Get There Faster If We All Move Together”: The Birth and Evolution of a Reproductive Justice Activist / Colleen MacQuarrie

Waves of Change in Prince Edward Island: Opening the Dialogue on Abortion Access / Sadie Roberts

PART THREE CHALLENGING OPPOSING POSITIONS

Blinded by the Right: My Past as an Anti-abortion Activist / Natalie Lochwin

One Life Change Leads to Another: My Evolving View of Abortion / Tracey L. Anderson

Pro-Choice for God’s Sake / Shannon West

Pro-choice with No “Buts”: Three Commentaries / Laura Wershler

Expanding the Reproductive Justice Lexicon: A Case for the Label Pro-abortion / Laura Gillespie

Same as It Ever Was: Anti-Choice Extremism and the “Third Way” / Jane Cawthorne

Women over Ideology / Nick Van der Graaf

PART FOUR PRACTITIONERS AND CLINIC SUPPORT

Dissolving Fear, Fostering Trust: Lessons from Life in Abortion Care / Peggy Cooke

“Do you think I will go to hell for this?” / Ruth Miller

Countering Shame with Compassion: The Role of the Abortion Counsellor / Erin Mullan

Women Judging Women: Whose Reasons Are “Good Enough”? Whose Choice Is OK? / Ellen Wiebe

Therapeutic Abortion: A Nonnegotiable Women’s Right / Sterling Haynes

On Becoming an Abortion Provider: An Interview / Shannon Stettner and “Dr. James”

PART FIVE SITES OF STRUGGLE

The Myth of Reproductive Choice: A Call for Radical Change / Karen Stote

Sex-Selective Abortion and the Politics of Race in Multicultural Canada / H. Bindy K. Kang

The Public Pregnancy: How the Fetal Debut and the Public Health Paradigm Affect Pregnancy Practice / Jen Rinaldi

A Harm-Reduction Approach to Abortion / Shannon Dea

The Unfinished Revolution / Shannon Stettner

List of Contributors