THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE AND THE CHOICE OF LAW - EXPERIENCE OF THE ONTARIOCOALITION FOR ABORTION CLINICS AND THE MORGENTALER JUDGMENT

This article looks at the political significance of the pro-choice mov ement in the Canadian province of Ontario. It focuses more specificall y on the discursive practices of the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Cl inics (OCAC) and its use of law as a tool to effective change. By comp aring the language of the Morgentaler judgment to that of the pro-choi ce movement, this article attempts to explore the reference to law as a path for social change and, namely, as a site of discursive construc tion of norms and representations, as opposed to a simplistic definiti on of law as a site of power struggles.