Canadians for Choice News Release

This news release was published on September 24, 1989, by Canadians for Choice. It discusses a campaign to release the advertisement “his choice or hers?” in twenty Canadian daily newspapers on the day coinciding with the opening of Parliament. The goal was to make abortion a priority issue for Members of Parliament. The advertisement “his choice or hers?” is attached to the news release. It discusses how men have infringed on the right of women to make their own reproductive choices, and references the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1988 decision which ruled that the federal abortion law violated Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to security of the person. Rather than a new abortion law, the advertisement calls for more grassroots lobbying efforts including for better education and for better access to reproductive healthcare.