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The Pro-Choice Action Network (Pro-CAN) is a Canadian pro-choice advocacy group based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Founded in 1987 as the BC Coalition for Abortion Clinics, the group changed to its current name in 1998. It began publishing a quarterly newsletter, ''The Pro-Choice Press'', in 1995. Pro-CAN is the largest and longest-established pro-choice organization in British Columbia. In November 1988, it successfully opened Everywoman's Health Centre. Many groups including women's health groups, the labour movement, the United Church, Student groups, and health care professionals supported Pro-CAN's initiative to open Everywoman's Health Centre. This successful opening is of notable importance because at that time, it was illegal for free-standing clinics to offer abortion services. ==Lobbying and advocating== Pro-CAN lobbies and advocates for: *the availability of safe, affordable, and effective contraception, and comprehensive sex education in schools; *the government fully funding all health services relating to reproductive health in community-based clinics and hospitals, inclusive of surgical and medical abortion services; *the defeat of any law that criminalizes abortion or impedes a woman's individual right to choice and access to abortion services; *protection and enforcement of the ''Access to Abortion Services Act'' and women's safe access to abortion services in an atmosphere of dignity and respect; *the principles of the ''Canada Health Act'' of May 1998, and *provision for universal access to abortion in all regions of Canada and federal guarantee of their access. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pro-Choice Action Network」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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