The Pedestal
data provider: CONTENTdm
is part of: Pedestal
issued: 2016-11-10
issued: 1970-06
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/pedestal/items/1.0340812/source.json
extent: 12 pages
format: application/pdf
note: THE PEDESTAL id monthly by VANCOUVER WOMEN'S CAUCUS II \ Keep your eyes on the prize Hold on! WOMEN: If someone close to you needed an abortion, she'd get one. Rich women can get safe abortions. It's poor women who suffer. TRUDEAU: So?. .. Trudeau's homecoming press conference, in Vancouver May 29, was an opportunity for women here to confront the federal government which had refused to listen to women from across Canada in Ottawa May 9. The women dominated the press conference. The confrontation was an education in itself. Trudeau's arrogance was exposed, he continued to refuse to promise anything more than "yes, my ministers will look into it... But I have no feeling that the law will be changed." The only argument given for not changing the law was that the law was changed once already. The fact that the change had had no effect in practice was ignored. This "dialogue" should be fair warning to the government that the women of Canada are not prepared to be ignored. We will be heard. "FREE ABORTION ON DEMAND fl Parliament Forced To Listen By GWEN HAUSER After travelling for 11 days across Canada, picking up women from all across the country, we finally arrived in Ottawa. Meeting with our sisters in a shopping centre we proceeded to cavalcade through the town. The response we got was overwhelming. People lined up outside their houses andon the streets, giving us V's, fists and waves and shouting encouragement for our venture. Next day at 1:30, after an open rally outside parliament, we held an open meeting in the Railway Room of the Parliament Buildings to present a brief to Trudeau,^ Munro and Turner. None of the government officials were there. Trudeau was on the eve of his mid-Pacific tour, Munro was at a World Health, Conference in Geneva (where, however, he was met by 50 Austrian women reminding him of the health of women in Canada) and Turner was out playing tennis. The only MP's who were there were Grace Mclnnis, David Lewis and Lome Nystrom (all NDPers) plu…
note: Vol. 2, no. 5; June 1970
has type: Newspapers
spatial: British Columbia
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0340812
language: English
provider: Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : Vancouver Women's Caucus
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. For permission to publish, copy or otherwise distribute these images please contact the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/
source: Original Format: Simon Fraser University. Archives and Records Management
subject: Women's rights--Periodicals
subject: Feminism--Periodicals
type: Text