“We Are Forced to Declare War”: Linkages between the 1970 Abortion Caravan and Women’s Anti-Vietnam War Activism

Stettner, Shannon

doi:10.1353/his.2013.0054

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“…Yet little is known about how two factors identified in the literature on feminist policy impact-neoliberal pressures and left/ right variation-shaped subnational abortion policies. Research to date focuses close attention on contestation at the federal level (Haussman, 2005;Haussman and Mills, 2012;Overby et al, 1998;Sethna and Hewitt, 2009;Stettner, 2013;Wells, 2020), the impact of the federal/provincial division of powers (Downie and Nassar, 2007;Erdman, 2007;Johnstone and Macfarlane, 2015;Palley, 2006;White, 2013) and the dynamics of anti-abortion activism (Cuneo, 1989;Saurette and Gordon, 2015). Existing studies of subnational abortion politics do not compare jurisdictions where violent attacks occurred, and they address theories other than those developed in the feminist policy literature (for example, Ackerman, 2017;Farid, 1997;Johnstone, 2018aJohnstone, , 2018b.…”

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Explaining Feminist Movement Impact: Provincial Abortion Policies in the Wake of Decriminalization, 1988–2018

Bashevkin

2023

Can J Pol Sci

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Focusing on four jurisdictions where abortion facilities and providers faced violent attacks following the Morgentaler decision of 1988, this study compares provincial government responses to core feminist demands in the area of women's reproductive health: enhanced hospital access, public funding of clinic abortions and safe zone protections. Consistent with previous research on childcare and anti-violence policies, the study finds that in neoliberal times, the presence of left governing parties in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario generally favoured abortion rights interests while conservative regimes disadvantaged them. The article contributes valuable new insights in revealing (1) the importance of centrist leaders in Ontario and at the federal level to pro-choice policy changes, (2) the significance of feminist critical actors to these outcomes, and (3) major variation among New Democratic Party provincial governments on abortion policy. The conclusion discusses implications of these results and proposes directions for further research.

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Explaining Feminist Movement Impact: Provincial Abortion Policies in the Wake of Decriminalization, 1988–2018

Bashevkin

2023

Can J Pol Sci

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Building Community and Transforming Knowledge: Histories of Women’s Health Practitioners and Community-Based Health Services in 20^th-Century Alberta, Canada

Patton

Kaliel

2020

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History

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As new government health policy was created and implemented in the late 1910s and the late 1960s, women patients and health practitioners recognized gaps in the new health services and worked together to create better programs. This article brings the histories of the district nursing program (1919–43) and local birth control centres (1970–79) together to recognize women’s health provision (as trained nurses or lay practitioners) as community-based and collaborative endeavours in the province of Alberta. The district nursing and birth control centre programs operated under different health policies, were influenced by different feminisms, and were situated in different Indigenous-settler relations. But the two programs, occurring half a century apart, provided space for health workers and their patients to implement change at a community level. Health practitioners in the early and late twentieth century took women’s experiential knowledge seriously, and, therefore, these communities formed a new field of women’s health expertise.

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Canadian Historical Review

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“We Are Forced to Declare War”: Linkages between the 1970 Abortion Caravan and Women’s Anti-Vietnam War Activism

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

Explaining Feminist Movement Impact: Provincial Abortion Policies in the Wake of Decriminalization, 1988–2018

Explaining Feminist Movement Impact: Provincial Abortion Policies in the Wake of Decriminalization, 1988–2018

Building Community and Transforming Knowledge: Histories of Women’s Health Practitioners and Community-Based Health Services in 20^th-Century Alberta, Canada

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“We Are Forced to Declare War”: Linkages between the 1970 Abortion Caravan and Women’s Anti-Vietnam War Activism

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

Explaining Feminist Movement Impact: Provincial Abortion Policies in the Wake of Decriminalization, 1988–2018

Explaining Feminist Movement Impact: Provincial Abortion Policies in the Wake of Decriminalization, 1988–2018

Building Community and Transforming Knowledge: Histories of Women’s Health Practitioners and Community-Based Health Services in 20th-Century Alberta, Canada

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Building Community and Transforming Knowledge: Histories of Women’s Health Practitioners and Community-Based Health Services in 20^th-Century Alberta, Canada