Abstract
In the late 1980s three hospital-based women's health centres were funded by the provincial government of Ontario, largely in response to a feministlobby to support public abortion services, improve the quality of women's health services generally, and increase women's participation in their own health care. This paperpresents a history ofthe first two years of the Peterborough Women's Health Care Centre (WHCC), the services it offers — abortion services, breastfeeding support, counselling, youth phone line, women's health day, antenatal ultrasound and colposcopysupport, resource centre — and its links with women and organisations in the community. It reviews the Centre's achievements in light of the feminist principles upon which it was founded. In spite ofinherentlimitations of working within the medical system and being based in a hospital, important improvements were made in local services for women. This paper offers a qualitative understanding of what is involved in this process.
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