Two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned in the United States, people gathered outside the Nanaimo Court House on Monday, June 24 to bring attention to the current state of reproductive rights in Canada.
Strikes took place across Canada and the United States as a way to recognize the need to continue fighting for reproductive rights.
Strike organizer and clinical counsellor Stephanie Peter said at the strike that there is still further to go in terms of pay equity, safety, and equality for women. She says she is worried that it seems like the rights of women are going backwards.
CHLY talked with Peter and Pattie Dyer, who came up from Comox for the strike, about the event.
Both Peter and Dyer say they joined the women’s rights movement later in life after witnessing events such as the overturn of Roe v. Wade taking away rights from women in the United States.
