An Abortion Law Preformed

http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/jlsp/vol35/iss1/3
Date Written:  2021-07-31
Publisher:  Journal of Law and Social Policy / Osgoode Digital Commons, Toronto, Canada
Pages:  24pp   Resource Type:  Article

In 1984, in R. v. Morgentaler, Carolyn Egan and Janice Patricia Tripp of the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics gave evidence for the defence in the Supreme Court of Ontario. This 2021 article in the Journal of Law and Social Policy (Volume 35, Number 35) analyzes the transcripts of their courtroom testimony. It focuses on "those moments when Egan and Tripp answered questions about the 1969 abortion law" and, in effect, "made the 1969 abortion law itself, its rules and procedures, the subject of examination." In doing so, according to Joanna N. Erdman, "they constructed new meanings of the law and social action in relation to it."