This series includes recordings of various segments relating to abortion debates captured on audiocassettes by Blodwen Piercy. They include segments from CJOH-DT, Bell Media, including members of CARAL speaking during debates,
This is a sound recording of a CJOH Town Hall segment on abortion in Ottawa, Ontario. The Town Hall, facilitated by broadcast journalist Max Keeping, featured four panelists : on the pro-choice side, abortion provider Dr. Nikki Colodny and NDP MP Marion Dewar ; on the anti-choice side, Alliance for Life executive director Anna Desilets and Liberal MP John Nunziata. The Town Hall invited questions from audience members who are also featured on the tape. The debate is passionate and contentious.
This is a sound recording of the second half of a debate on abortion aired on CJOH News between Alliance for Life President Sue Herlihy [sp?], representing the anti-choice positoon, and CARAL President Norma Scarborough, representing the pro-choice position. The first half of this debate, featuring the anti-choice position, is included on the previous tape. This recoridng also contains an interview about abortion policy featuring Robert Caplan, Liberal MP for York Centre, and NDP MP for Yukon. This recording is followed by a different CJOH segment on Abortion in Ottawa-Carleton, featuring the mother of a 14-year-old girl who was refused abortion by a therapeutic abortion committee in hospital. Another segment, aired the next day, discusses abortion in the United States. Following these segments, this recording features the voice of Blodwen Piercy discussing these segments over the phone with an unheard and unnamed person, also offering her views on the Alliance for Life film, "Feel the Heartbeat," which aired on Global.
This is a sound recording of the second half of an anti-choice film called "Feel the Hearbeat," produced by the group Alliance for Life. The film focuses on giving birth as more "courageous" than having an abortion ; this half of the film touches on adoption and the argument that life begins at conception. The second half of this recording features a news segment on the abortion debate in Canada which took place after the Supreme Court struck abortion from the Criminal Code in January 1988 ; the segment contains an interview with Dr. Morgentaler ; coverage of demonstrations for and against abortion ; and an interview with speakers from each side of the debate. The anti-choice speaker is Alliance for Life President Sue Herlihy [sp?] ; the pro-choice speaker is Norma Scarborough, president of the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL).
This recording includes different sound recordings relating to abortion from the CJOH segment on abortion. The first portion of the segment covers CARAL's press conference on abortion access following the Supreme Court decision to strike abortion from the Criminal Code in January 1988. The segment also covers both sides of the abortion debate, including the activities of Manitoba pro-life protestors ; BC Premier Bill Vander Zalm's anti-choice attempt to challenge provincial funding for abortions ; Kim Campbell's disagreement with Vander Zalm ; pro-choice plans to open a clinic for free abortions ; and various demonstrations for and against the medical procedure. Following this segment, this recording contains the first part of an anti-choice film called "Feel the Hearbeat," produced by the group Alliance for Life. The film focuses on giving birth as more "courageous" than having an abortion, discusses pregnancy counselling centers, and argues that teenagers are able to raise babies as long as they have the proper support.
This recording consists of Nancy Adamson's interview with Helen Levine in Ottawa at the School of Social Work at Carleton University, on 11 August 1992. Levine speaks about her early involvement with the women's movement beginning in the 1960s, as well as other socio-political groups, demonstrations and organizations in Ottawa, including the Women's Resource Group, the Women's Centre, Women's Place, a Marxist feminist group, [CR] conscious-raising groups, Interval House, the Abortion Caravan, the Communist Party, and more. Levine and Adamson discuss politics, age, radical/liberal/Marxist feminism, and compare the women's movement across Canada (particularly in Toronto) to the movement in Ottawa. Later topics discussed include women's studies courses. Levine's work at Carleton University [in the Faculty of the School of Social Work], reflections on the topic of race and changes within the women's movement, etc. Throughout the interview, Levine touches on her personal life and struggles. [There is a pause in the recording between A and B side at 53:24, the conversation begins again at 53:28].
Voici un entretien avec Louise Lafortune. Louise est professeure émérite et associée de l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, au sein du département des sciences de l’éducation, et consultante dans les domaines de l’éducation et de la santé. Elle est également professeure invitée de Holguin, à Cuba. Louise a été professeure de mathématiques au cégep pendant 24 ans. Elle a été ensuite professeure-chercheure en didactique des mathématiques à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Ses intérêts de recherche féministes concernent la dimension affective de l’apprentissage, l’équité socio-pédagogique, et la pédagogie interculturelle. Elle a étudié la « mathophobie » et les questions liées à l’anxiété à l’égard des mathématiques. Elle s’est intéressée en particulier à la situation des femmes en mathématiques et en sciences. Elle est l’auteure de plus de 80 ouvrages et plus de 200 articles scientifiques et de chapitres de livres portant sur l’ensemble de ces sujets. Elle est membre fondatrice de l’AFFESTIM (anciennement MOIFEM dont elle était également membre fondatrice). ... This is an interview with Louise Lafortune. Louise is a professor emeritus and associate at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, in the Department of Educational Sciences, and a consultant in the fields of education and health. She is also a visiting professor in Holguin, Cuba. Louise was a CEGEP math teacher for 24 years. She then became a professor-researcher in mathematics didactics at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her feminist research interests include the affective dimension of learning, socio-pedagogical equity and intercultural pedagogy. She has studied "mathophobia" and issues related to mathematics anxiety. She is particularly interested in the situation of women in mathematics and science. She is the author of over 80 books and over 200 scientific articles and book chapters on all these subjects. Louise is also a founding member of AFFESTIM (formerly MOIFEM, of which she was also a founding member).
