By Sean Previl Global News
Posted June 24, 2023 4:00 am | Updated June 24, 2023 6:24 pm
Advocates for safe abortion access and reproductive health are warning that one year after the fall of Roe v. Wade, similar anti-abortion and anti-rights rhetoric is bubbling up in Canada.
And they say more needs to be done to not only educate people on the resources and services out there, but to continue efforts to protect essential health care like abortion, access to birth control and other aspects of sexual and reproductive health.
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According to Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, there has been a growing amount of “anti-gender equality” and “anti-choice rhetoric” taking shape. Kelly Bowden, the group’s director of policy and advocacy, said this has been seen in terms of book bans, attacks on drag storytime events, and what she said were attempts to undermine sexual health curriculums.
The real deep knock-on effect of the reversal of Roe in U.S. is actually around this rising anti-rights narrative and implications on a whole host of other policies that are not related directly to abortion services
-- Bowden said in an interview with Global News.