[1] Upwards of 300 supporters gathered in Ottawa on Parliament Hill and at the residence of the prime minister at the time, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, to protest the amendment.
[10] Before the Abortion Caravan set out across Canada, on February 14, 1970, the VWC held a public meeting and theatre performance outside of the Vancouver Courthouse representing women's lack of control over their reproductive health.
[12] Throughout their travels the Abortion Caravan stopped in Canadian towns including Kamloops, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Toronto.
[14] Once speeches were given and the meeting in the Railway Committee Room concluded, hundreds of women and men continued their protest towards Pierre Elliot Trudeau's residence at 24 Sussex Drive.
At the Prime Minister's residence, guards and RCMP were present; although, they allowed the group to enter the property and occupy the lawn while one of the VWC members, Margo Dunn, gave a speech.
[12] Trudeau was also not present at his residence but allowed the women to leave a coffin alongside a garbage bag, knitting needles, Lysol and a vacuum cleaner hose as representative objects used to perform unsafe abortions.
[12] Once seated, the women quietly chained themselves to their seats, listening intently as, on the House floor, NDP MP Andrew Brewin asked the Minister of Justice John Turner if he would consider reviewing the abortion law; Turner said he doubted the law would be reviewed, closing discussion on the matter.
[15] Just before 3 p.m., one of the women rose from her seat in the gallery and began reciting the Abortion Caravan's "declaration of war",[12] interrupting debate on the floor of the House of Commons.
[14] The gallery disturbance caused by activists served as the climax of the Abortion Caravan, provoking the first adjournment of Parliament in its 103-year history, shutting down the House of Commons for over an hour.
[12] During the Abortion Caravan's declaration of war in Ottawa, Trudeau was not present; although, once the VWC had returned to Vancouver, they secured a meeting with him which he reached out to organize.
During the meeting, when the members of the VWC stated they wanted the “abortion law repealed”, Trudeau's response was “well, go and get the people to vote for it.