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The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children reports that an attempt in the British House of Lords to block the provision of abortifacient morning-after pills from pharmacists without a doctor’s prescription was defeated 177 votes to 95.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1143000/1143501.stm

The National Post reported January 18th that the newly printed Canadian $50 banknote features the Famous Five, Canadian feminists who were advocates of eugenics. The new $10 bill has a remembrance and peacekeeping theme with poppies, doves, a female (presumably Canadian) soldier in a blue United Nations beret.  https://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20010118/440653.html