PZ Myers discusses abortion and how asinine the anti-choice positions actually are. From the article Abortion rights are human rights. […] However, the equivalence of mother and fetus is an untenable proposition. A mouse has more complexity and autonomy than a fetus, and we don’t even hesitate when the choice
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Art Threat: Democracy on Trial: The Morgentaler Affair
Abortion-rights activist and pioneer Dr. Henry Morgentaler died Wednesday of a heart attack. Appropriately, our Friday Film Pick is Democracy on Trial, a 1984 NFB documentary by Paul Cowen in which Morgantaler’s historic legal battle over abortion in the 1970s is unraveled and explored using a combination of archival footage,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Again, “Pro-Life” is Death for Women – Beatriz in El Salvador
How many more examples do we need of the lethal nature of the supposedly “pro-life” position? Let’s clear this up by naming them correctly, for the record, when you hear the term “Pro-life” you need to replace that with “anti-woman forced birth advocate”. Why? Because what forced birthers are about
Continue readingROAR!: PEI’s anti-choice Liberals – Abortion in PEI
An editorial I wrote today in response to this article that ran in The Guardian today: ‘[Anti-choice] movement supporters restate their opposition to abortion’. Submitted it to the paper, maybe it will run on Monday, fingers crossed. ______________________________________________________________ PEI’s anti-choice Liberals In The Guardian on the 10th, was coverage describing the
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: Canada’s annual protest against women’s rights was…
Canada’s annual protest against women’s rights was held at Parliament Hill on May 9, 2013, drawing thousands of right-wing busybodies who can’t keep their authoritarianism in their pants. The name of the yearly “March For Life” is misleading, because most of the religious fanatics who attend these events are very
Continue readingROAR!: RU486 Ready Canada – Abortion in PEI
Saw this the other day over Twitter … Abortion pill now a reality. Australia sits poised to list RU486 as part of their Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which will make the once very expensive drug, available to all Australian women at a hugely lower price. Medical abortion.Safe, effective and ACCESSIBLE. So I google RU486 and I see
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 5 Abortion Myths Exposed – Debunking Forced Birth Stupidity.
The vast amount of shit the forced brith advocates spew into the interwebs lends new meaning to the word grotesque. Our anti-choice friends have been faffing on long and hard about Dr. Kermit Gosnell conveniently forgetting about Savita Halappanavar’s terminal experience with their fetid dogma . Let me spell it
Continue readingBirth Pangs: God Doesn’t Kill Just Because He Didn’t Like How Things Turned Out…Oh wait a minute…
via Proud Atheist The post God Doesn’t Kill Just Because He Didn’t Like How Things Turned Out…Oh wait a minute… appeared first on Birth Pangs.
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Continue readingROAR!: Passing judgement on Medical Services? | Abortion, PEI
I saw this today, it came across the status update on a Facebook Page I follow – I’m not sure who wrote it, but it seems to be a post on a blog called ‘Worry about your own Uterus’ (an interesting read in and of itself!). It jumped out at me
Continue readingROAR!: The Fight for Choice on PEI – Midwifery and Abortion
It is flat out no longer the case that Islanders are uninformed about their rights and the discrimination that they are enduring at the hands of a gov’t that refuses to allow women access to choices in their reproductive heatlh. Well, I don’t really think it ever was the case, but at
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Canada’s Supreme Court Wants To Restrict Abortions
One sign that a country is in trouble is when the top court’s opinion is deemed controversial. Canada doesn’t have to worry about that, not because its Supreme Court is so respected, but because of how little Canadians know about its rulings, in particular that our highest court believes abortion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sex Selective Abortion – High Octane Wankage from the Conservative Party of Canada
The Right in Canada was bloodily united a couple of years ago under the banner the old, yet new again, banner of the Conservative Party. The two precursor parties were the Progressive Conservative Party and the (Wack-a-loon) Reform (Alliance/fascist/reactionary/etc) Party of Western Canada. Sadly, as I hail from Western Canada,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: *Wiggle-Wiggle* Goes the Red Pen of Justice – This is to You, Who Support Murder[!!1!1!]
The RPOJ comes for thee BJ! I had a sense on this one, as I was typing my reply to the burning stupid present on this site, that my commentary might not be published. Given that dudes, with what they deem to be important opinions, tend not to like being
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Pro-Life or Pro Choice? The abortion debate is back March 28
CBC is reporting that Conservative MP Mark Warawa’s motion, calling on Parliament to condemn the practice of abortion being used to select the sex of a child, is tentatively slated to be debated on March 28th. Its a thorny issue, and it certainly stretches the definition of Pro-Choice in my opinion.
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Pro-Life or Pro Choice? The abortion debate is back March 28
CBC is reporting that Conservative MP Mark Warawa’s motion, calling on Parliament to condemn the practice of abortion being used to select the sex of a child, is tentatively slated to be debated on March 28th. Its a thorny issue, and it certainly stretches the definition of Pro-Choice in my opinion.
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Pro-Life or Pro Choice? The abortion debate is back March 28
Source: What We Think About Abortion
ROAR!: PEI’s Anti-Choice Legislature – Abortion in Canada
A couple Tuesdays from now, March 26th our PEI Legislature is to sit after it’s Winter break (or whatever you call it). To mark that occassion I sent all our MLA’s this email, I also sent it to a few others who might be interested in the general discussion of how our
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Forced Birth is Slavery for Women
Make no mistake, the pro-life-forced-birth lobby are advocating slavery for women. Dianne, in a comment on Pharygula, captures exactly the position our anti-choice friends would like to put women in. Query: Why are they talking about the circumstances of the conception as though that matters? A forced pregnancy is slavery,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Clarification for our Anti-Choice Friends: Life at Conception? Err..No.
One of the cheap rhetorical tricks that forced birth advocates often use is the idea that somehow “Science” (ya know science, that vast shadowy monolithic structure) supports their crappy arguments and thus lends weight to their assault on women and their rights. One of the easiest tells illustrating the rhetorical,
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