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UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Nikki Colodny papers
Creator:
Colodny, Nikki
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2188
Physical Description:
1.6 Linear Feet
(4 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1978-1995
Abstract: Dr. Nikki Colodny was a pro-choice activist, abortion provider, and women's health advocate operating in Toronto, Ontario
throughout the 1980s and 1990s. This collection contains records from several clinics and advocacy organizations with which
she was active, in addition to press coverage of her activities and research materials.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are primarily in English, with some materials in French.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Nikki Colodny Papers (Collection 2188). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Acquisition Information
Gift, 2013. Donated by Nikki Colodny.
Processing History
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processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
Processed by Stacy Wood, 2013
Description enhancement and further physical processing completed by Jessica Tai in 2017.
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Biography
Dr. Nikki Colodny (born April 1, 1948), was a Canadian abortion provider, women's health advocate and activist operating in
Toronto, Ontario throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Most prominently, she worked with Dr. Henry Morgentaler, providing medical
care and abortion services which at the time were illegal. Their arrests and repeated harassment brought publicity to their
cause, eventually precipitating the overturn of abortion laws by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1988. In that same year, Colodny
founded the cooperative Women's Choice Health Clinic. In addition to her medical services, she was an active participant in
several pro-choice organizations including the Ontario Coalition of Abortion Clinics (OCAC), the National Abortion Federation
(NAF), and the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL). Her research is widely published in both medical and women's
studies academic journals.
Scope and Content
This collection contains organizational records from the Choice in Health Clinic as well as from several operational Canadian
pro-choice activist organizations. Also included is press coverage of abortion rights in Canada as well as more specific coverage
of Dr. Nikki Colodny and Dr. Henry Morgentaler's legal battles. A small amount of photographs and personal correspondence
are represented in the collection, but the majority of materials deal with Dr. Colodny's professional activities.
Organization and Arrangement
Materials in this collection are arranged chronologically.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA.
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives.
Morgentaler, Henry -- Archives
Colodny, Nikki -- Archives