Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL)
Association Canadienne Pour Le Droit L'avortment (ACDA)
Year Published: 1983
Resource Type: Organization
Cx Number: CX2705
Abstract:
Connexions has published multiple abstracts on Canadian Abortion Rights Action League.
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This abstract was published in Connexions Digest in 1983:
The purpose of CARAL, as defined in its constitution, "is to ensure that no woman in Canada is denied access to safe, legal abortion". Its aim is "the repeal of all sections of the Criminal Code dealing with abortion, and the establishment of comprehensive contraceptive and abortion services, including appropiate counselling across the country". Removal of abortion from the Criminal Code "would permit all Canadians to act acording to personal conscience". It would eliminate the current situation, in which Canada's Abortion Law is "unfairly and unequally applied and tends to discriminate against low income and rural women". Only one-fith of Canadian Hospitals hacve Therapeutic Abortion Committees; yet a Gallup poll done in June 1982 "showed that 72% of adult Canadians believe that the decision whether or not to have abortion should rest with the consenting patient."
CARAL mantains an extensive file on abortion around the world, and publishes a bibliografhy and information materials. (One article, entitled "When Does Life Begin? - The Envolving Position of the Roman Catholic Church", traces the history of the church's postion on abortion.) Members are also active in lobbying politicans across the country.
CARAL points out that it is not pro-abortion, but that they do recognize that "all birth control methods can fail, and unwanted pregnancies do occur . . . it's a situation where there are no good answers, only rational decisions". "In a humane and caring society, every child should be a wanted child".
This organization no longer exists.
This abstract was published in the Connexions Digest in 1983.
See also CX2985.
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This abstract was published in Connexions Digest in 1984:
The CANADIAN ABORTION RIGHTS ACTION LEAGUE (CARAL) is sponsoring the Pro-Choice Defense Fund. The Fund was set up to draw support from across the country for the defense of both the Toronto and Winnipeg free-standing abortion clinics which were raided in the summer of 1983. The aim of the Fund is to ensure that enough money is available to defend all the people charged in the clininc raids.
CARAL works to help build support for the Pro-Choice position by asking people on the mailing list to monitor local papers for news about the clininc trial and other abortion related news; and to contact the local newspaper to ask what position the paper has on abortion.
A newsletter is published as information is collected form across the country.
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