Dr. Martha Paynter Book Launch

Name: Dr. Martha Paynter Book Launch
Start: 2025-10-02T19:00:00-06:00
Location: 3130-8th Street East, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Saskatchewan S7H 0W2

Schedule

Thu, 02 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

3130-8th Street East, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Saskatchewan S7H 0W2 | Saskatoon, SK

Join Dr. Martha Paynter for the Saskatoon launch of Lawless: Abortion Under Complete Decriminalization (Fernwood Publishing), with guest host Robin Hansen.
This event will be held in person in the Travel Alcove.
Canada is the only country with complete decriminalization of abortion: no gestational duration limitations, no parental consent obligations, and no waiting periods. Despite that, Canadian federal and provincial legislation and regulations shape how abortion care is delivered. Barriers persist in uneven access, unclear information, and belief-based denial of care. In accessible plain language from the expansive perspective of a clinician, researcher and activist, Dr. Martha Paynter describes abortion policy, practice and experience and discusses how to resolve challenges that continue more than three decades after Canada became the world's most legally progressive jurisdiction for abortion.
Dr. Martha Paynter has worked to advance abortion access in Canada for over 20 years. A writer, nurse and public scholar, she is recognized internationally for her expertise at the nexus of reproductive and prisoner health. In 2022, Fernwood Publishing released her first book, Abortion to Abolition: Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada.
Professor Robin F. Hansen teaches law at the University of Saskatchewan. Her work has been published in journals, including the Modern Law Review, Global Jurist, and the Journal of Legal Education, and she is the author of Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow. She lives in Saskatoon.