A Holocaust Survivor & Reproductive Rights Advocate | Women’s History Month | USC Shoah Foundation
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After surviving the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps during the Holocaust, Henry Morgentaler migrated to the United States, and later settled in Montreal, Canada. Henry completed his medical studies in 1953. For more than 20 years, Henry performed then-illegal abortions and fought for decriminalization of the procedure (he is also credited as being one of the first doctors to perform vasectomies, insert intrauterine devices, and provide birth control pills to unmarried women). Throughout these years, Henry risked losing his career, and was arrested, imprisoned, harassed, threatened with violence, and physically attacked on multiple occasions.
The name Dr. Henry Morgentaler is well-known throughout Canada, as Henry is credited for Canada’s decriminalization of abortion in 1988. Even after the 1988 ruling, Henry continued fighting for improved access to safe abortion across the country, until he retired in 2006. In 2008, Henry was bestowed the Order of Canada “for his commitment to increased health care options for women, his determined efforts to influence Canadian public policy and his leadership in humanist and civil liberties organizations.”
March is Women’s History Month in the United States.
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