A Symposium to Mark the 20th Anniversary of R v. Morgentaler (U of T, Friday, Jan. 25, 2008)
Karen
Federation Present
A Symposium to Mark the 20th Anniversary of R v. Morgentaler
Of What Difference: Reflections on the Judgment and Abortion in Canada
Today
Friday, January 25, 2008
8:30am – 5:00pm
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
This interdisciplinary symposium celebrates the twenty year
anniversary of R v. Morgentaler, the Supreme Court case in which the
criminal law on abortion in Canada was held unconstitutional. The
symposium examines the significance of the judgment twenty years on.
What difference has it made to women, providers and the politics of
abortion in Canada?
To Register for the Symposium, please visit:
http://www.law.utoronto.ca/conferences/ofwhatdifference.html
Registration is Free
REGISTRATION AND LIGHT BREAKFAST
(8:30-9:00am)
WELCOMING REMARKS
(9:00-9:30am)
Dean Mayo Moran
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Vicki Saporta
National Abortion Federation
Colleen Flood
CIHR - Institute of Health Services and Policy Research
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Dr. Henry Morgentaler
THE CONTEXT: FROM MORGENTALER TO ABORTION IN CANADA TODAY
(9:30-10:30am)
R v. Morgentaler: Charter Rights and Abortion
Lorraine Weinrib
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Post-Morgentaler Challenges: From Crime to Health
Joanna Erdman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Abortion in Canada Today: Who, What and Where?
Dawn Fowler
National Abortion Federation, Canada
RIGHTS IN PRACTICE: BARRIERS TO AVAILABLE AND ACCESSIBLE CARE
(10:45-12:15pm)
Geography: Variation Across the Country
Sheila Dunn
Bay Centre for Birth Control, Department of Family and Community
Medicine, Women’s College Hospital, University of Toronto
Law: Facilitating and Impeding Access
Sanda Rodgers
Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Better Never Than Late, But Why?: The Contradictory Relationship
between Law and Abortion?
Shelley Gavigan
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Information Failure: An Ontario Case Study
Lorraine Ferris
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
LUNCH WITH STUDENT POSTER PRESENTATIONS
(12:15-1:15pm)
When Freedom Fails: Free Speech and Women's Right to Safe Abortion in
the Philippines
Carolina S. Ruiz Austria
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
The Other Morgentalers
Chris Kaposy
Dalhousie University
Permitted Exceptions to Abortion Law in Brazil: Helpful or Harmful?
Keri Bennett
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
OUR PROVIDERS: THE CHALLENGES OF THEIR WORK
(1:15-2:45pm)
Challenges of Providing Abortion Care: A Provider’s Perspective
Konia Trouton
Vancouver Island Women’s Clinic
Why I do this? Being a Provider
Gary Romalis
The Elizabeth Bagshaw Women’s Clinic, Vancouver
The New Generation: Abortion in Medical Schools
Pat Smith
Grand River Hospital, Kitchener and NAF and NAF Canada
ABORTION IN LAW AND POLITICS
(3:00-4:30pm)
The Role of Media in the Abortion Debate
Heather Mallick
Journalist and author
The Politics of Abortion: The Work of the Politician
Carolyn Bennett
Hon. Carolyn Bennett MD. MP St. Paul’s
Legal Reform in a Politically Charged Context
Jocelyn Downie
Faculty of Law, Dalhousie University
CANADA FROM AN INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
(4:30-5:00pm)
Canada from an International and Comparative Perspective
Katherine McDonald
Action Canada for Population and Development
SYMPOSIUM CONCLUSION AND THANKS
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:23sMk3B8GtkJ:www.law.utoronto.ca/documents/reprohealth/morgentaler_Symposium08_Programme.doc+carolyn+bennett+abortion+u+of+t&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca