By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Joyce Arthur is the Founder and Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada. She has been an abortion rights and pro-choice activist since 1998. Arthur worked for 10 years running the Pro-Choice Action Network. In addition to these accomplishments, she founded FIRST or the first national feminist group advocating for… Read more »
Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson is an abortion doula and Ph.D. student in religious studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of the Humanist Ceremonies Handbook (Humanist Press, 2018) and the upcoming The Companion: An Abortion Doula Handbook. You can visit her at her website www.electriceelpond.com. Here we talk about accessibility. By Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson August 2019 “Why do you have to… Read more »
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Joyce Schorr and Sylvia Ghazarian from WRAPP discuss abortion rights and reproductive rights. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Let’s give some sense of where you’re coming from, when you’re speaking. What is family/personal background, for instance, geography, culture, religion or lack thereof, and so on? Joyce Schorr: I was with a woman who had… Read more »
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Richael is with the Media/Social Media Working Group of the Abortion Rights Campaign. Here we speak frankly on women’s reproductive rights. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: As a grassroots movement oriented around the advancement and empowerment of women through activism for safe, free, and equitable abortions, do other similar campaigns exist in the world,… Read more »
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Emma Duke is the Board Director of Communications on the Board of Directors of the Abortion Support Services Atlantic (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Here we talk about her life, work, and views. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: For the abortion services in the Atlantic, what are the important points to bear in mind? Emma Duke:… Read more »
Ask Joyce 1 – Into the Dark Night, Finding Some Sunshine – by Scott Douglas Jacobsen.