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  • The Abortion Caravan

  • When Women Shut Down Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose
  • By: Karin Wells
  • Narrated by: Karin Wells
  • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins

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The Abortion Caravan

By: Karin Wells
Narrated by: Karin Wells
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Publisher's summary

Spring 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of a group of remarkable women who helped bring about abortion reform. The caravan left Vancouver with 17 activists and arrived in Ottawa on May 8th 1970, where over 500 women rallied and shut down parliament.

In the spring of 1970, seventeen women set out from Vancouver in a big yellow convertible, a Volkswagen bus, and a pickup truck. They called it the Abortion Caravan. Three thousand miles later, they “occupied” the prime minister’s front lawn in Ottawa, led a rally of 500 women on Parliament Hill, chained themselves to their chairs in the visitors’ galleries, and shut down the House of Commons, the first and only time this had ever happened. The seventeen were a motley crew. They argued, they were loud, and they wouldn’t take no for an answer. They pulled off a national campaign in an era when there was no social media, and with a budget that didn’t stretch to long-distance phone calls. It changed their lives. And at a time when thousands of women in Canada were dying from back street abortions, it pulled women together across the country.

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©2020 Karin Wells (P)2022 Second Story Press
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Critic reviews

“Wells’s powerful book affirms that such ongoing obstacles to women’s autonomy and reproductive rights are why the Abortion Caravan matters more than ever.” — Kerry Clare, Quill & Quire

“Wells’s descriptions of political action in the days before social media and #MeToo are at times witty and always fascinating.” — Charlotte Gray, The Walrus, Canadian Authors Pick Their Favourite Books of 2020

“Karin Wells uses deep, original research and energetic writing to expose the ideological and practical ups and downs of the early struggle for reproductive rights in this country. Her book is a poignant revelation of the many small conflicts and victories that led to a pushing of the barriers.” — 2021 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Jury

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