If you’ve not seen the show FAQMP, it’s on ichannel, which you can watch on TV if you get it, or online. They interview MP’s, and folk send in video or email questions and the MP’s answer them. Now while I don’t expect anything earth shattering to happen during this
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Those Emergency Blues: A Nasty, Medically Unnecessary, Coercive Procedure
This is just grostesque: A Republican supermajority has muscled two of the most restrictive anti-abortion bills in years through the Virginia House, despite bitter yet futile objections from Democrats, with one GOP delegate deriding most of the procedures as “matters of lifestyle convenience.” You want to put what where? [SNIP]
Continue readingROAR!: We thank you Shane Ross – for nothing
A big old ‘Thank you’ to Shane Ross who informed Islanders in an opinion piece for The Guardian on Feb. 15th – ‘Climate not right for Abortion Debate’. Thanks because here we were thinking anytime is the right time to discuss human rights. Thanks for thinking you know what a
Continue readingUS cable and the contraception debate. Male guests dominate the airwaves 2 to 1 over females.
Last week, at the height of the kerfuffle over Obama’s regulation to include free birth control in health insurance plans, cable news networks featured an overwhelming number of males. Out of a total of 146 guests who discussed contraception, the cables invited 91 men compared to 55 women as commentators.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 40 Days of Fail. Anti-Choice Protesters Choose Not to Defend their ‘Loving God’.
I think the anti-choicer’s irony meters broke when confronted with the reality of their bloodthirsty sky daddy. The always controversial religious antagonist is back with another video displaying putrefaction known as religious morality. Filed under: Ethics, Feminism, Religion Tagged: 40 days of fail, Abortion, Anti-Choice Zealotry, christian fail on
Continue readingkirbycairo: On the "Reawakening" of Debates. . . . .
Well, as anyone with a pulse and 10% of political common sense knew, now that the conservatives have a majority we, as a nation have begun to talk about abortion and the death penalty again. As they have always done, the Harpercons have essentially generated this discourse by stealth, attempted
Continue readingTrashy's World: Harper and the abortion issue…
…or non-issue… depending on where you stand. I had an extensive back and forth with some conservative friends the other day on FB. I was referring to a piece by WK on how the abortion issue is NOT really off the table for the CPC. I don’t cut and paste
Continue readingROAR!: Access on PEI = Empowering Women
One of the organizers of PRRO (PEI Reproductive Rights Organization) has been nominated to become an Active-8 Ambassador, one of 8 young adults from Atlantic Canada working to bring about positive change, at home and across the country. They are participating in a contest to see who can get the
Continue readingBlunt Objects: To Toronto-Danforth Liberal Members….
When you vote today for your Liberal candidate, please consider this: While others, including people I respect deeply, have attacked Trifon Haitas for his anti-choice (or pro-life, whatever you’d like to call it), I ask that you consider the wider fact that he does not appear to be a single
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Where the Church Rules Women Die – No Access to Safe Abortions in the Philippines
Sorry, god mandates a needless death for you, have a nice day… The story is almost always the same. Worship the christian-sky daddy and women become second class citizens who get to die because ‘abortion is a sin’. In the video the dude from the ‘health department’ mentions the
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Obamacare, birth control, and religious freedoms
The Obama administration has recently adopted a very narrow definition of religious exclusions in the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. The effect of this is that ostensibly religious institutions such as Catholic hospitals and universities would be required, along with everyone else, to include coverage of birth control
Continue readingImpolitical: Paging pro-choice Toronto-Danforth Libs
Thursday night is the Liberal nomination in your riding: 7 p.m. at Riverdale Collegiate Institute, 1094 Gerrard Street East.If you had thought of skipping this one, read this and think again. The abortion issue has surfaced as an issue in this nomination contest. Trifon Haitas, a candidate for the Liberal
Continue readingROAR!: Mr. Casey finally comments on Resolution #58!
Here is a tweet the other day, from Karyn P. who is the host of FAQMP in ichannel: “Just interviewed @seancaseymp who answered ur #cdnpoli q’s on vets, min. wage & a #lpc resolution on abortion. Will post air dates Fri.” Yay! So we still have to wait likely a
Continue readingROAR!: Get Inspired! Pledge one Action today!
Can you remember the last time you spoke out for something? Can you remember the last time you followed up an opinion with real action? Can you remember the last time you challenged your politicians in a public way? Can you imagine speaking out on a topic that might polarize
Continue readingSusan G. Komen has a job opening. Karen Handel booted?
Psst. Know anybody who knows anything about PR, handling the public and not creating shit storms? Komen is looking for a new “Director of Public Policy”, likely to replace the “Senior Vice President of Public Policy”, the lovely Karen Handel, whose talent for mishandling PR and creating shit storms is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Abortion – Safe and Necessary
Sometimes there is a absence of reasonable discussion when it comes to the topic of abortion. The lack of solid empirical grounding for arguments leads to some rather wild and wooly debates. The Guttmacher institute has a new section called “Are you in the Know?” about women’s health and abortion.
Continue readingWTF? A Poem?
WTF? A bunch of racist sexist homophobic nutbarsGOP nazis spreading shit like this is somehow okay in the land of the free, home of the brave? Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) pretends to prevent race-based abortions, steals from the civil rights … Continue reading →
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Abortion Debate
This Interim piece proceeds upon the wrong assumption. Progressives want to have a “respectful” debate with the government side on Abortion. We do! So please keep those petitions and private Members bills coming. And, Prime Minister Harper, I beseech you, let your back-benchers speak!
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: How to Put Planned Parenthood Out of the Abortion Business
The fundie Right doesn’t hesitate to condemn Planned Parenthood for providing abortion services. Slate’s William Saletan offers a brilliant idea on how to put Planned Parenthood out of the abortion business – send it as much money as you can. Look at the latest annual report from Planned Parenthood Federation
Continue readingROAR!: Call Robert Ghiz up in front of the class!
Paul Dewar, NDP Leadership hopeful has released his plan to bring Women’s rights and women’s participation in government front and centre. NDP LEADERSHIP: Dewar reveals women’s rights plan in wake of debate attack. Apparently he was given a hard time for not naming a woman as his second officer, but
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