Canada – Kelowna Companies Won’t Run Pro-Choice Billboards

The crowdfunded campaign aims to counter anti-abortion billboards in the region.

Michelle Gamage, The Tyee
June 6, 2025

A University of British Columbia Okanagan campus student who raised more than $3,000 for a pro-choice billboard is stumped on where to post her message.

Sophie Harms says she wants to create a billboard that says “Abortion is safe, normal and common” to counter the anti-abortion billboard messaging that peppers the Okanagan region.

Recent billboards in the region have shown a pregnant belly next to a person holding a baby, with the text “Our right to life does not depend on our location.” Another sign said, “Abortion is not ‘healthcare.’ Pregnancy is not a disease.”

Continued: https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/06/06/Kelowna-Companies-Pro-Choice-Billboards/

Abortion Pills Aren’t Uncomfortable; Censorship Is

Here's my message to The Times-Picayune and every other institution that finds truth "uncomfortable": Get comfortable with discomfort. Because abortion pills aren't going anywhere.

Liv Raisner, Common Dreams
May 22, 2025

So here's what happened. We—Mayday Health, an abortion education nonprofit—tried to buy a newspaper ad in The Times-Picayune of New Orleans. The ad featured just a few words: "Abortion pills are more popular than ever. Thanks, Amy" with a photo of Amy Coney Barrett, who was born in New Orleans.

The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, Louisiana said… no. They refused to publish. They sent us a rejection letter assuring us that they "support First Amendment free speech," of course. They just find our particular speech too "uncomfortable."

Uncomfortable.
Let me tell you about uncomfortable.

Continued: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/abortion-pills-censorship

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USA – Billboards Throughout South and Midwest Advertise Abortion Access: ‘Pregnant? You Still Have a Choice’

9/27/2023
by CARRIE N. BAKER, Ms. Magazine

For years, right-wing evangelicals have posted billboards along highways and in towns across the U.S. trumpeting their religious views and their anti-abortion beliefs. Now, post-Dobbs, abortion rights supporters are fighting back with their own roadside billboards and mobile digital LED advertising trucks.

Shout Your Abortion recently posted six abortion rights billboards along interstate 55 through five states that have banned abortion—from Memphis, Tenn., to Carbondale, Ill. The billboards include messages like, “God’s Plan Includes Abortion” and “Abortion is Okay: You Know What’s Best for You.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2023/09/27/abortion-billboards/

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Billboards advise on how to get abortion pills in US states where procedure is banned

Mobile billboards on how to get access to pills by mail are being driven through college campuses in 14 states

Ed Pilkington in New York
Fri 3 Mar 2023

Women living under abortion bans in the US are being offered advice on how to get access to abortion pills by mail, through a system of mobile billboards which are being driven through college campuses in 14 states carrying the prohibition.

The billboards are the creation of Mayday.Health, a non-profit set up in the wake of the US supreme court’s ruling last June that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion. The posters carry QR codes that link to online information providing a step-by-step guide on how to obtain the abortion pill even in states which have banned it.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/03/abortion-pill-billboards-us-states-bans

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Canada – ‘Do you have another shirt?’: Possible change in legislative protocol following abortion t-shirt rejection

Brady Lang
Nov. 10, 2022

Clarity on protocols within the Saskatchewan Legislature is being looked for by both the government and the official opposition, thanks to a shirt, which read “Abortion is Health Care.”

The shirt was worn by Moosomin’s Megan Johnston, the executive director of Abortion is Healthcare Signs. The non-profit looks to put up “Abortion is Healthcare” billboards across Saskatchewan, wherever a pro-life billboard stands.

Continued: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/do-you-have-another-shirt-possible-change-in-legislative-protocol-following-abortion-t-shirt-rejection-1.6148363

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‘This is a state of emergency’: the US billboards using art to urge abortion access

In states across the US with restricted access to abortions, artists have designed billboards to insist on voters to prioritise women’s health in time for the midterm elections

Adrian Horton
Mon 7 Nov 2022

For the next few weeks, passersby in 14 US cities, many in states with curtailed or tenuous abortion access, will see clear, strikingly positive messages responding to the reproductive health crisis in the US.

“Abortion is Healthcare,” says one billboard in Louisville, Kentucky, where the right to abortion is on the ballot this week, around two pink stethoscope cords in the shape of a uterus. In New Orleans, a sign blares “THANK GOD FOR ABORTION” in stark black and white, an angel flying off the top right corner. In Atlanta, site of two of the most closely watched midterm races this year, a background of lush green leaves underscores blooming text composed of tropical flowers: “ABORTION IS LIFE.”

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/nov/07/abortion-billboards-us-roe-v-wade-midterms-art

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Canada – ’Abortion is healthcare’ billboard goes up in Sask. to counter anti-abortion messages

Group plans to put up more billboards throughout province

Yasmine Ghania · CBC News
Posted: Nov 01, 2022

If you're driving along Saskatchewan highways, there's a good chance you'll see some anti-abortion billboards.

But now, if you're in Aylesbury, Sask., about 100 kilometres northwest of Regina, you'll also see an "abortion is healthcare" sign.

"We are trying to decrease the stigma and also increase availability and accessibility to those people who need access to abortions," said Rachel Regio, vice-president of Abortion is Healthcare Signs Inc., which paid for the billboard.

Continued: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/abortion-is-health-care-billboard-anti-abortion-messages-1.6635516

01.11.2022

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‘It’s 2022’: Moosomin woman looks to combat rural anti-abortion billboards with ‘Abortion is Healthcare’ signs

Brady Lang
Aug. 25, 2022

Megan Johnston was travelling en route to a camping trip with a friend, nine hours across the province, when she began counting anti-abortion signs in the rural areas of Saskatchewan.

Once they arrived, the pair realized they had passed 13 of the signs, sparking an idea in the Moosomin woman’s head to do something about it.

Continued: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/it-s-2022-moosomin-woman-looks-to-combat-rural-anti-abortion-billboards-with-abortion-is-healthcare-signs-1.6042907

25.08.2022