The link between the YWCA and CARAL, the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League, was re-affirmed on May 8, 1985, at the YWCA’s annual “Women of Distinction” dinner in Toronto with the presentation of an “Aggie” trophy to Norma Scarborough, president of CARAL. Scarborough, one of six women to receive the 1985 award follows six other presidents and honorary directors of CARAL who have received the award over the past five years.
Mrs. Scarborough was nominated by the Scarborough Secondary Schools Principals Association (Public Schools). She is on the Scarborough Board of Education’s Steering Committee on the Status of Women and an Executive of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC).
Other radical feminist award winners and abortion advocates were Kay Sigurjonsson, deputy executive director of the Federation of Women Teachers Associations of Ontario (and former co-host of CBC’s television, Weekend), a founder of NAC; and Helen Lucas, feminist artist, currently battling any and all controls over pornography (usually referred to as “censorship”).
Over the last 20 years, the Young Women’s Christian Association has ceased to have any connection with Christianity. Today it supports the idea that every pregnant woman should have the right to kill the new human life within her. As Mrs. Scarborough put it recently, society should “recognize women as responsible human beings capable of making momentous decisions in their own lives.” AH
