RightNow, an anti-abortion advocacy organization, released a series of videos on social media showing the group’s co-founder, Alissa Golob, speaking with staff at four Canadian clinics in 2023 about getting an abortion. In an interview with TorontoToday this week, Golob said she was not genuinely seeking an abortion, but secretly recorded video on her phone while at the clinics, aiming to show that later abortions happen in Canada and that such procedures aren’t reserved exclusively for women with medical complications.
Frederique Chabot, executive director of Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights (Planned Parenthood Canada), said the published videos use “American tactics” designed to suggest that abortion in Canada is a “back-alley, sketchy thing” done by unscrupulous doctors.
She said the reality couldn’t be further from the truth — that abortion in Canada is a legal, regulated, health care procedure undertaken by trained physicians.
RightNow’s videos have several hundred thousand views cumulatively. Chabot said “propaganda” of this sort is becoming increasingly common in Canada and uses the same playbook as anti-abortion campaigners in the United States have leveraged to roll back women’s rights. In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, removing the federal constitutional protection for abortion.
SOURCE: Toronto Today, by Gabe Oatley, 21 November 2025; PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons.