The Abortion Caravan: When Women Shut Down Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose

From award-winning CBC radio documentarian Karin Wells comes The Abortion Caravan, shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and winner of the Ontario Historical Society Award's Alison Prentice Award.

In the spring of 1970, seventeen women set out from Vancouver in a big yellow convertible, a Volkswagen bus, and a pickup truck. They called it the Abortion Caravan. Three thousand miles later, they “occupied” the prime minister’s front lawn in Ottawa, led a rally of 500...