Media Resources

• Press Releases
• Media Contact List
• Safety Guidelines for Media - Please Help Protect Abortion Providers
• The Issues - Pro-Choice Position Statements
• Backgrounders (history, abortion services, etc.)

Press Releases

• Jan 31/05 — New Brunswick's Anti-Abortion Law is an "Embarrassment" to Canada
• June 11/04 — 86% of Conservative Party Incumbents Are Anti-Choice
            List of Current Anti-Choice Incumbent MPs
• June 4/04 — Conservative Party Can't Hide Their Anti-Abortion Agenda
            List of Anti-Choice Motions and Private Member Bills
• June 2/04 — Women Don't Need Legislated "Informed Consent" on Abortion
• May 18/04 — BC's Pro-Choice Community Welcomes Over-the-Counter Emergency Contraception
• Jan 28/03 — Abortion Access Still a Problem on 15th Anniversary of Historic Morgentaler Decision
• Nov 29/02 — Abortion Clinics Are Better and More Cost-Effective Than Hospitals
• Mar 29/01 — NDP Commits to Reproductive Choice While Liberals Play Political Football
• Nov 20/00 — Dooms'DAY' in Canada: Abortion Rights Threatened by Alliance
• Oct 24/00 — Abortion Clinic Vandalized: "How Should We Treat Our Neighbour?" - Vandalize Their Property!

Media Contact List

To obtain a copy of our Media Contact List of pro-choice spokespersons representing various pro-choice groups in BC, please email us (at info@prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org) with your name, title, and media affiliation, and your email address or fax number.

These spokespersons can be contacted for information or comments on the abortion issue, contraception, family planning, reproductive health issues, the anti-abortion movement, and related political and law enforcement issues. They can also speak on NATIONAL issues. Spokespersons for the Pro-Choice Action Network also represent BC's abortion clinics.

Position Statements

• Answers to Misconceptions About Abortion
• No Link Between Abortion and Breast Cancer
• Abortion Psychologically Benign for Most Women
• The Funding (and de-Funding) of Abortion in Canada
• Personhood: Is a Fetus a Human Being?
• What Pro-Choice Really Means (or - "Pro-Choice for Dummies")
• Why We Don't Do Media Debates with Anti-Choice Spokespeople

Looking for something else? Information on just about any topic or past news story related to abortion is on our website somewhere. To search, please enter keywords in the Search box on our home page.

Backgrounders

• What is the Pro-Choice Action Network?
• Abortion Services in BC
• History of Abortion in Canada (summary)
• Abortion in Canada: History, Law, and Access (thorough treatment)
• Canada and the U.S. - Comparisons of Abortion Law and Policy
• Abortion Laws and Practices Around the World ("Legal Abortion: the Sign of a Civilized Society")