Lunch event at Octopus Books in Ottawa
To all our Ottawa-based fans: Join us on Wednesday, October 24th at noon at Octopus Books (Centretown, 251 Bank St, 2nd Floor, at Cooper) for a roundtable chat about our work, reproductive justice in...
View ArticlePro-choice knitters wanted! / Tricoteuses et tricoteurs pro-choix recherchés!
Le français suit On September 26, 2012 we successfully defeated Motion 312. Yay! 203 Members of Parliament voted to defeat the Motion and we couldn’t be happier. But you didn’t think we were going...
View ArticleM-408: The Torch is Passed from Woodworth to Warawa
Our dear friend MP Stephen Woodworth, held a talk at the University of Ottawa recently. He seems to think that: a) History is on the side of human rights (which leads us to believe we have read very...
View ArticleCALL TO ACTION: 25th Anniversary of the Morgentaler Decision / 25e...
Monday, January 28th marks the 25th anniversary of the Morgentaler Decision which effectively decriminalized abortion in Canada. Three cheers for pro-choice victories! We are calling on our pro-choice...
View Article25th Anniversary of the Morgentaler Decision / 25e anniversaire de l’arrêt...
Send us your photos of gratitude and acknowledgement of 25 years of abortion access in Canada! radicalhandmaids at gmail dot com
View Article#SinceMorgentaler
We are grateful for reproductive rights but keenly aware of how precious they are.
View ArticleVictory!
It seems that Parliamentarians have deemed M-408 (The ‘I-don’t-do-a-damn-thing-for-the-rights-of-girls-but-claim-to-care-about-femicide’ Motion) non-votable. You can read Parliamentary journalist...
View ArticleM-408 will be not resurrected after all!
Yup. That’s right, folks. M-408 was denied an appeal by The Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs. Warawa’s wish of his very own Easter resurrection have been dashed. If you’re into that...
View Article‘March for Life’ counter-presence
The Radical Handmaids will be attending this year’s March for Life as part of the contingent of pro-choicers who bear witness to the lies, deception and flat out WTF-this-is-so-bizarre nature of the...
View ArticleCanada fails to adhere to its own mandate of ‘protecting maternal health’
There is only one thing that comes to mind when considering what could be more ‘abhorrent’ than rape and child marriage: the thought of a forced pregnancy. How can the Conservative’s platform insist...
View ArticleNo, doctors should NOT be denying birth control. #SorryNotSorry
Thankfully, we’re not alone in that. So when we received this letter and were asked to amplify it, we did. In a big way. Huffington Post tackled it, The Ottawa Citizen called the doctors in question...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....