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Dear John, 

This Saturday, January 18, Amnesty supporters across Canada and around the world are taking to the streets for the third global Women’s March.  
 
This year we’re joining our partners to bring attention to the alarming rollback on bodily autonomy experienced by women, transgender, and non-binary people in Canada and around the world.  
  
Join us! Find a Women’s March event near you 
 
Across the world, people who can get pregnant are facing barriers accessing comprehensive sexual health information and services, and having their rights fully protected when they access such services.

In Canada, the proposed Bill 207 in Alberta would limit access to sexual and reproductive health services. The last free-standing abortion clinic in Fredericton is up for sale. Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people continue to be sterilized without their free, full, and informed consent. 
 
This pattern is consistent with a global trend, which has seen increasing restrictions on access to abortions in the United States, and continued criminalization of abortion in countries like El Salvador and Argentina.  
 
That’s why Amnesty is partnering with Women’s March Global, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and She Decides to dedicate the 2020 Women’s March to protecting bodily autonomy.  
 
Whether you can join us in your community or not, you can learn more about Amnesty’s participation in the Women’s March, and more ways to take part here. 
 
Women’s rights are human rights, and sexual and reproductive health and rights must be protected. Thank you for speaking out for a world in which everyone has the right to make their own free decisions about their body, life, and future.   

In solidarity,  


 
Jackie Hansen 
Gender Rights Campaigner 
Amnesty International Canada
 

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