"We are failing to act on the information we already have": Family planning, abortion, and the Lalonde Report, 1969-1977.

IF 2.6 4区医学 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Canadian Journal of Public Health-Revue Canadienne De Sante Publique Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-17 DOI:10.17269/s41997-025-01099-1

Christabelle Sethna

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Decades after its publication, the Lalonde Report is lauded for galvanizing the concept of health promotion. Feminist scholars have faulted the report's androcentrism. However, the report's lack of support for family planning should also be studied by drawing upon the work of historian Larry Collins on abortion, examining the larger backdrop of feminist second-wave dissatisfaction with the 1969 Criminal Code reforms to contraception and abortion, and considering the findings of two significant contemporaneous reports commissioned by the federal government-the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (1970) and the Report of the Committee on the Operation of the Abortion Law (1977). This exercise underscores that both Marc Lalonde and the federal government fell far short of addressing the family planning needs of Canadian women because of the government's desire to contain the fallout of its reforms to abortion.

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“我们没有根据已经掌握的信息采取行动”：计划生育、堕胎和拉隆德报告，1969-1977。

《拉隆德报告》出版几十年后，因激发了健康促进的概念而受到称赞。女权主义学者对该报告的男性中心主义提出了批评。然而，报告缺乏对计划生育的支持也应该通过借鉴历史学家拉里·柯林斯关于堕胎的工作来研究，研究女权主义者对1969年避孕和堕胎的刑法改革的第二次浪潮的更大背景，并考虑到联邦政府委托编写的两份重要的同时期报告的结果- -妇女地位皇家委员会的报告（1970年）和堕胎法执行委员会的报告（1977年）。这表明，马克·拉隆德和联邦政府都远远没有满足加拿大妇女的计划生育需求，因为政府希望控制堕胎改革的后果。

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Canadian Journal of Public Health-Revue Canadienne De Sante Publique PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-

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