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a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s The editors are tremendously grateful to those who have supported us in the journey that ended in the publication of this book. The planning and execution of the book, including an authors’ workshop at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, in May, 2012, would not have been possible without a grant from the Ford Foundation. In particular, we want to thank Lourdes Rivera, our program officer at the Foundation, who challenged and supported us to expand our vision throughout this project, for which we will always be grateful. Our thinking about the design of the book benefitted greatly from discussions with various colleagues, including Luisa Cabal, Markus Dubber, Tatjana Hoernle, Isabel Jaramillo, Lisa Kelly, Karen Knop, Fernanda Nicola, Reva Siegel and Catherine Valcke, whose insights from various perspectives proved invaluable. We are grateful to Reva Siegel and Ruth Rubio-Marín for the inspirations we derived from a workshop on comparative and transnational perspectives on reproductive rights they organized in 2010. We thank Sonia Lawrence and participants of the Osgoode Institute for Feminist Legal Studies Series for an afternoon of stirring conversation about the book concept. We thank Oxford University Press for their permission to reprint Reva Siegel ’s chapter, “The Constitutionalization of Abortion,” in this book. We are grateful to Peter Agree, Editor in Chief of the University of Pennsylvania Press, and Bert Lockwood, editor of its Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series, for their guidance throughout this project. We are indebted to Linda Hutjens, Coordinator of the International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Program, University of Toronto, for the constancy of her support throughout this project, from the very drafting of the grant proposal to the submission of the final manuscript. We simply could not have completed this project without her thoughtful and meticulous ways. 472 Acknowledgments We are grateful to Susan Barker, of the Bora Laskin Law Library of the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, for providing bibliographic assistance. We sincerely thank our research assistants, Y. Y. Brandon Chen, Sandra Dughman, Jenny Leon, Andy Sprung, and Ken Vimalesan, who helped in countless ways, including researching, checking sources, editing drafts, or formatting citations. Finally, we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to our respective home institutions: the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, and the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, for facilitating this project. ...

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