The rise of far-right governments in many jurisdictions across the globe risks undoing years of steady progress on reproductive rights, and there is much work to be done everywhere. This work takes many forms, and a wide range of strategies are employed by activists working on issues relating to reproductive health.
This talk surveys a number of these strategies. It will highlight efforts across Canada to increase access to prescription contraception, including the AccessBC Campaign in British Columbia and the ContraceptiON Campaign in Ontario.
The talk will then delve into the strategy of Women on Waves (WoW), an international non-governmental organization that seeks to prevent unsafe abortions and unwanted pregnancies. This organization is notable for deploying sexual health and abortion clinics on board vessels just outside of the territorial waters of countries with restrictive access to abortion, and even delivering abortion medication via drone and robot.
The talk concludes with a survey of two ongoing issues in Canada – crisis pregnancy centres and maternity homes – and explores strategies for tackling these entities that prey on people in vulnerable situations.
