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Abortion protest
Abortion protest

Abortion protest

Date12/10/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: Abortion protest: An anti-abortionist is led from the Legislature visitors' gallery yesterday after shouting at MPPs to close down Dr. Henry Morgentaler's Harbord St. clinic. Shortly after three protesters were ejected from the gallery; 27 others occupied
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0011921F
Opposing rallies, Several thousand people gathered at Queen's Park yesterday to mark Mother's Day by holding a rally to protest against abortion. [Incomplete]
Opposing rallies, Several thousand people gathered at Queen's Park yesterday to mark Mother's Day by holding a rally to protest against abortion. [Incomplete]
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Abortion fight
Abortion fight
8/14/1985
Anti-abortion demonstration
Anti-abortion demonstration
5/13/1986
''Abortion Caravan'', Yorkdale
''Abortion Caravan'', Yorkdale
1970
Confrontation: Pro-life protesters block steps of the Scott abortion clinic, while pro-choice supporters attempt to clear blockade
Confrontation: Pro-life protesters block steps of the Scott abortion clinic, while pro-choice supporters attempt to clear blockade
9/8/1989
Metro police had to use bolt cutters today to arrest prolife demonstrators who chained themselves to railings at the Scott abortion clinic on Gerrard (...)
Metro police had to use bolt cutters today to arrest prolife demonstrators who chained themselves to railings at the Scott abortion clinic on Gerrard (...)
5/12/1989
Showing solidarity: Several hundred pro-choice supporters raise banners yesterday urging the federal government not to introduce laws restricting abortion
Showing solidarity: Several hundred pro-choice supporters raise banners yesterday urging the federal government not to introduce laws restricting abortion
8/9/1989
Bad old days: A pro-choice marcher's sign opposes a return to the days of illegal, often amateur abortions, symbolized by the coat-hanger with which they were sometimes performed
Bad old days: A pro-choice marcher's sign opposes a return to the days of illegal, often amateur abortions, symbolized by the coat-hanger with which they were sometimes performed
5/8/1983
ROM protest: A museum worker costumed to represent a dinosaur joined about 100 union members who picketed the Royal Ontario Museum yesterday to protest lagging contract negotiations
ROM protest: A museum worker costumed to represent a dinosaur joined about 100 union members who picketed the Royal Ontario Museum yesterday to protest lagging contract negotiations
9/10/1985
High-level protest, Three demonstrators lash banners to a 200-foot transmission tower near Bowmanville to protest construction of the Darlington nuclear plant without environment studies
High-level protest, Three demonstrators lash banners to a 200-foot transmission tower near Bowmanville to protest construction of the Darlington nuclear plant without environment studies
6/1/1979
Fiery protest: Demonstrators burn Housing Minister Dave Cooke in effigy at Queen's Park yesterday to protest against proposed NDP rent-control legislation
Fiery protest: Demonstrators burn Housing Minister Dave Cooke in effigy at Queen's Park yesterday to protest against proposed NDP rent-control legislation
4/9/1991
Orderly protest: A police officer stands guard as one of about 75 pickets circles outside the Royal Ontario Museum yesterday in protest of an African exhibit within
Orderly protest: A police officer stands guard as one of about 75 pickets circles outside the Royal Ontario Museum yesterday in protest of an African exhibit within
5/21/1990