Finding Aid for the Nikki Colodny papers, 1978-1995 LSC.2188

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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.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

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Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

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.
This collection is part of an outreach and collection-building partnership between the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW)  and the UCLA Library .

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Processed by Stacy Wood, 2013
Description enhancement and further physical processing completed by Jessica Tai in 2017.
The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive  at UCLA is an outreach and collection-building partnership between the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW)  and the UCLA Library . These collections expand the pool of primary source materials available to researchers and to the community at large. This partnership was initiated by CSW and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to inventory, organize, preserve, and digitize more than eighty Mazer collections pertaining to lesbian and feminist activism and writings.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9973770763606533 

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

box 1, folder 1

Official reports: Court and legal proceedings 1977-1990

box 1, folder 2

Canadian Medical Association 1978-1995

box 1, folder 3

Canadian Dimension 1980-1985

Scope and Content

Volume 15, Number 1 & 2 (October/November 1980); Labour Supplement (1983); Volume 18, Number 5 (June 1984); Volume 18, Number 6 (December 1984/January 1985)
box 1, folder 4

Notes and personal items circa 1980s

box 1, folder 5

Ephemera: stickers circa 1980s-1990s

box 1, folder 6

Photographs circa 1980s-1990s

box 1, folder 7

Medical Licensing 1981-1988

box 1, folder 8

Agenda: That Which Must Be Done 1982-1983

Scope and Content

Vol. 1 No. 6 (January 1982); Vol. 1 No. 7 (March 1982); Vol. 2 No. 1/2 (Sept/Oct 1982); Vol. 2 No. 3 Special Issue (June 1983)
box 1, folder 9

Pamphlets 1983-1986

box 1, folder 10

Medical Reform Group 1984-1985

box 1, folder 11

National Action Committee on the Status of Women 1984-1985

box 1, folder 12

Fact sheets and briefs 1984-1988

box 1, folder 13

The National Democratic Party (NDP) 1984-1994

box 1, folder 14

Published Research Material: medical, legal, feminist 1984-1996

box 2, folder 1

Doctors for Choice 1985-1986

box 2, folder 2

Anti-choice materials 1985-1987

box 2, folder 3

Dr. Morgentaler and Dr. Colodny arrests 1985-1987

Language of Material: Contains a French language newsletter
box 2, folder 4

Fliers 1985-1987

Scope and Content

Fliers for rallies, events, and gatherings predominantly around abortion rights and the pro-choice movement.
box 2, folder 5

Programs and conference materials 1985-1987

box 2, folder 6

Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics (OCAC) 1985-1995

box 2, folder 7

National Abortion Federation (NAF) 1985-1996

box 2, folder 8

Court case (Pro-Choice Defence Fund) 1986

box 2, folder 9

Concerned Citizens for Choice on Abortion (CCCA)- Vancouver 1986-1987

box 2, folder 10

Press releases and letters 1986-1987

box 3, folder 1, box 2, folder 11

Correspondence 1986-1998

box 3, folder 2

Coalition for Access to Abortion 1987

box 3, folder 3

Report on Therapeutic Abortion Services in Ontario 1987

box 3, folder 4

Canadian Abortion Rights Action League 1987-1988

box 3, folder 5

Newsletters 1987-1988

Scope and Content

Campaign Life Coalition News (December 1987, March 1988), YWCA Access (1987 Summer), Concerned Citizens for Choice on Abortion (October 1987)
box 3, folder 6

Choice in Health Clinic: Supporting organizations funding letters 1988

box 3, folder 7

Choice in Health Clinic: Press releases 1988-1989

box 3, folder 8

Independent Health Facilities Act 1988-1990

box 3, folder 9

Choice in Health Clinic: Financial statements and proposals 1989-1990

box 3, folder 10

Choice in Health Clinic: External correspondence 1989-1995

box 3, folder 11

Choice in Health Clinic: Training and hiring 1989-1995

Language of Material: This folder contains French language material.
box 3, folder 12

Clinique Planning Familial & Sexualite 1989-1995

Language of Material: This folder contains French language materials.

Scope and Content

Contains blank patient forms and general information about abortion.
box 4, folder 1

Birth control in service materials 1990-1993

box 4, folder 2

Choice in Health Clinic: Internal correspondence 1990-1999

box 4, folder 3

Choice in Health Clinic: Trademarks 1991

box 4, folder 4

IPAS Gynecologic Aspiration Kit with Karman Cannulae and Syringes 1992

box 4, folder 5

Training materials 1992-1993

box 4, folder 6

Ministry of Health Task Group 1992-1994

box 4, folder 7

Doctor training 1992-1996

box 4, folder 8

Choice in Health Clinic: Harassment suit Affidavits: Ontario Court (General Division) 1993

box 4, folder 9

Protests and harassment outside of abortion clinics 1993

box 4, folder 10

Homophobia 1993

box 4, folder 11

Gordon Watson case 1994

box 4, folder 12

Methotrexate and Misoprostol induced abortion 1994-1996