As members of Everywoman's Health Centre Society, we need to provide the directors of the Society with a strong mandate for action. To that end, we call upon the membership to adopt the following proposals, to be implemented by the incoming board:

1. that the board challenge the authority of the B.C. College of Physicians to impose regulations on the clinic; specifically,

a) that the position of Medical Director be left vacant, and the requirement to have an MD as Medical Director be questioned;

b) that the board refuse to purchase expensive and unnecessary equipment soley to satisfy accreditation requirements;

c) that the board reject the demand of the clinic doctors for more money;

d) that the board call upon the Ministry of Health to adopt guidelines for the self-regulation of aboriton clinics comparable to those being developed for midwifery services, including the right of service providers to determine appropriate protocols for the provision of abortion and related services, and

2. that regular quarterly meetings of the Society be instituted to keep the membership informed and to reactivate our broad base in the woman's movement.

NOTE: This motion was obviously defeated and a new Board elected at the July, 1993 Annual General Meeting. But it documents the battle between the feminists who started the clinic and the group that wanted Everywoman's to be a "medical model" as opposed to an "idealogical model".

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