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The Abortion Caravan
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The Abortion Caravan
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February 11, 2020, Toronto- Journalist and documentarian Karin Wells' book The Abortion Caravan will be released to mark the 50th anniversary of this revolutionary act for women's rights. In the spring of 1970, seventeen (mostly) young women set out from Vancouver in a big yellow convertible, a Volkswagen bus, and a pickup truck. It was called the Abortion Caravan. Five thousand kilometres later, they led a rally of 500 women on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, “occupied” the Prime Minister’s front lawn, chained themselves to their chairs in the visitors’ galleries, and shut down parliament—the first time in history that this was accomplished. Reading about the Abortion Caravan today we are struck by how little some things have changed. What is even more striking is how the progress that was gained by the activism of women across North American in that era and the years following is now being eroded or is under threat.
The women who organized the caravan were loud, and they took no prisoners. In an era when there was no social media and no one could afford long distance phone calls, this group of feminists pulled off a national campaign. It changed their lives. And at a time when thousands of women in North America were dying from back street abortions, it pulled women together across the country. April 27th, 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the Abortion Caravan's departure from Vancouver on their journey to Ottawa, where they arrived on May 8th, 1970.
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