Description: To mark the 30th anniversary of abortion decriminalization in Canada, Abortion Beyond Bounds is a two-day Montreal-based conference that will assess the state of self-managed abortion in the context of novel global flows of information, materials and regulation. Free and open to the public. Registration is required.
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Register ABOUT To mark the 30th anniversary of the decriminalization of abortion in Canada, this bilingual two-day conference organized by the McGill Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies (IGSF) and the Centre for Research on Gender, Health, and Medicine will focus on "self-management" in order to assess contemporary questions, research, and activism around abortion both locally and globally.
The very recent legalization of the abortion pill (mifepristone) in 2016, with distribution being rolled out as of 2017, raises new issues and opportunities surrounding access, autonomy, and experience of abortion in Canada. The 45th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade in the United States, and the restrictions on abortion access in the U.S. and globally, resulting from Donald Trump's presidency also influences our debates, culture, and politics of abortion at this moment. However, these constraints and politics ar