CANADA – Reproductive health advocates still waiting for Holt to keep promise of free birth control

With gender-based violence declared an epidemic, advocates say it’s time for province to fulfill promise

Hope Edmond · CBC News
Feb 03, 2026

Advocates are calling on the New Brunswick government to make good on its pledge to implement universal, no-cost contraception coverage.

Premier Susan Holt promised to make birth control free during her election campaign in 2024 by signing a pharmacare agreement with the federal government.

“We’re disappointed that the Holt government hasn’t signed a pharmacare deal,” said Tracy Glynn, a founder of Reproductive Justice New Brunswick and the national director of projects and operations for the Canadian Health Coalition.

Continued : https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/pharmacare-free-contraceptives-9.7068501

Canada – Winnipeg author shares insights on her latest title ‘What Friends Are For’

By Sofia Frolova

January 17, 2026

Harriet Zaidman is an award-winning author based in Winnipeg. She writes historical fiction with stories ranging from the Winnipeg General Strike to the outbreak of polio in the 50’s.

Her latest novel, “What Friends Are For”, tells an important and controversial story. “It’s set in 1983. Dr. Henry Morgantaler, who was a doctor, had decided that he would challenge the abortion laws in Canada at the time. And, he set up a clinic here,” Zaidman explained.

Continued: https://winnipeg.citynews.ca/2026/01/17/winnipeg-author-shares-insights-on-her-latest-title-what-friends-are-for/

17.01.2026

Canada – Anti-abortion billboards in West Kelowna, B.C., coming down

December 9, 2025
Video – 2:24 minutes

Billboards with anti-abortion messages may soon be coming down in the Kelowna area. For many years, a local billboard company has allowed the signs along Highway 97 through West Kelowna. As Brady Strachan reports, pressure from a local pro-choice advocate has led to a policy change.

Continued: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7009750

09.12.2025

Videos/Images

anti-choice billboards

anti-choice lies

anti-choice misinformation

BC Billboards

BC Humanist Association

Why Quebec’s plan to enshrine abortion rights is raising alarms

By Marisela Amador
Published: December 07, 2025

Civil society groups are warning that the Legault government’s plan to enshrine abortion rights in Quebec’s proposed constitution could have unintended consequences.

But Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette says the point of writing the measure into law is to protect those rights, adding that he worries future courts could overturn decisions that currently uphold the right to terminate a pregnancy.

Continued: https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/why-quebecs-plan-to-enshrine-abortion-rights-is-raising-alarms/

Abortion Rights in Canada are Under Attack

Forced-birth groups are testing their strategy

Dr. Jen Gunter
Nov 28, 2025

My friends in Canada, and anyone else who cares about human rights and not descending into fascism, The National Post sounded a right-wing dog whistle about abortion, and you need to pay attention. We have lived this in the United States, and trust me when I tell you, this is how it starts.

The cause for alarm? The National Post, a right-wing national rag, ran a piece featuring an undercover forced birther allegedly visiting four clinics, claiming she was 22 weeks pregnant and trying to arrange an abortion. The videos were highly edited and apparently filmed two years ago, when the person who made them claimed to have been pregnant. I make no excuses for not taking the word of someone who shoots clandestine videos about abortion. When someone publicly admits to misleading multiple people, their word is meaningless.

Continued: https://vajenda.substack.com/p/abortion-rights-in-canada-are-under

Canada – Pro-choice group warns of new abortion ‘disinformation’ on social media

Recently published videos show the co-founder of a pro-life group posing as someone interested in accessing an abortion, including at a clinic in Toronto

Gabe Oatley
Nov 21, 2025

One of the country’s leading pro-choice organizations is raising alarm about a new social media campaign it says is distorting public perception of abortion access in Canada.

Over the past 10 days, RightNow, a pro-life advocacy organization, has released a series of videos on social media showing the group’s co-founder, Alissa Golob, allegedly speaking with staff at four Canadian clinics in 2023 about getting an abortion.

Continued: https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/health/abortion-disinformation-social-media-pro-choice-group-warning-11517455

21.11.2025

Commentary

Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights

Alissa Golob

Cabbagetown Clinic

Dr. Lynn Murphy-Kaulbeck

Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada

As Trump and RFK Jr. Consider Mifepristone Limits, Women on Web Vows to Keep Abortion Pills Flowing in the U.S.

“Women on Web stays open no matter what,” says Women on Web, a feminist nonprofit that connect abortion seekers with abortion pills. “Abortion is part of our lives and should be freely available to all.”

11/17/2025
by Carrie N. Baker, Ms. Magazine

As Republicans push the FDA to restrict mifepristone, the international online abortion service Women on Web is reassuring Americans that they will continue to support access to abortion pills in all 50 states, no matter what. Women on Web has served over 130,000 people worldwide since 2005 and began serving the U.S. in July 2024.

Based in Canada, Women on Web is a nonprofit organization that has team members located across 20 different countries who connect abortion seekers with prescriptions for abortion pills and to pharmacies that will mail mifepristone and misoprostol to people up to 14 weeks of pregnancy.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2025/11/17/abortion-pills-usa-women-on-web-fda-trump-rfk/

17.11.2025

Interviews/Podcasts

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Canada – Young adult novel tackles heavy topic

What Friends Are For sheds light on history of abortion in Canada

By: Simon Fuller
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025

Harriet Zaidman’s latest book, her sixth, sharpens the focus on abortion — a subject that remains the subject of much discussion and polarization, especially in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court 2022 overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling.

What Friends Are For, published by Heritage House … is described in a publisher’s press release as a “nuanced, important, and unfortunately timely (young adult) novel set in 1983 at the height of Canada’s abortion debate, following a young girl grappling with an unplanned pregnancy.”

Continued: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/east/2025/11/12/young-adult-novel-tackles-heavy-topic

12.11.2025

Film, Art, Books

abortion novel

Dr. Henry Morgentaler

Study reveals uneven access to abortion pill mifepristone in British Columbia

Nov 7 2025

Most pharmacies in British Columbia can provide the abortion pill mifepristone within days, but uneven access still leaves some women facing barriers to this time-sensitive medication, according to new research.

The study, published Nov. 6 in JAMA Network Open, offers the first province-wide look at pharmacy-level access to mifepristone in B.C.

Continued: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20251107/Study-reveals-uneven-access-to-abortion-pill-mifepristone-in-British-Columbia.aspx

07.11.2025

Research

abortion pills

abortion pills at pharmacies

Dr. Elizabeth Nethery

A global reminder that the fight for abortion rights is far from over

Women’s right to control our own bodies is not a battle that can be checked off as won

Review by Pamela Cross
October 21, 2025

The A Word: A Global History of the Abortion Struggle, by Elizabeth Casillas and Higinia Garay, University of Regina Press, 2025

The A Word is aptly named. I’m always struck by how, even in Canada, people still feel compelled to whisper when they talk about abortion. It’s a legal medical procedure—we don’t whisper about appendectomies, heart surgery, or root canals. And yet abortion continues to carry, for many, a faint air of impropriety.

I shouldn’t be surprised. In television and film, when a character with no plans for children becomes pregnant, the script rarely includes abortion. Instead, she either miscarries conveniently or turns her life upside down to give birth and, somehow, happily raise a child. Abortion is seldom even mentioned.

Continued: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/a-global-reminder-that-the-fight-for-abortion-rights-is-far-from-over