For those who missed it, ( I did) an editorial in the CMA Journal by that publication’s editor in chief has caused quite a stir lately, as one might well expect. Any suggestion which advocates limiting or restricting choice on reproductive matters…well its just asking for trouble. Dr. Kale, the author
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ROAR!: Simple solution to Abortion Access on PEI
The PEI Liberals, under the leadership of Robert Ghiz are saying that Women on PEI do in fact have access to abortion services. They have access because they can drive/fly/bus/hitchhike/taxi out of the province. So long as we can get there, or some of us at least, we as a group, have access. With
Continue readingBirth Pangs: Virginia State Senator Janet Howell Has A Brilliant Plan
Virginia State Senate is trying to put through a bill requiring women to have an ultra-sound before an abortion. Senator Janet Howell has formed a brilliant protest manoeuvre Howell expressed her disdain for the latest legislation on Monday, and said the amendment was just a matter of fairness between genders.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How pro-life is really just anti-choice and really, just plain crazy.
Social Conservatism on Display The pro-life position is riddled with contradiction – Republican Rep. Larry Pittman, who was appointed to the District 82 House seat in October, expressed his views in an email sent Wednesday to every member of the General Assembly. […] “We need to make the death penalty a
Continue readingROAR!: Resolution #58 Ghiz, Casey and MacAulay – Day 15
Does it really matter that the PEI NDP’s asked our Premier, Robert Ghiz and our two other Liberal MP’s to comment on Reslolution #58? Does it really matter that women on PEI stood in front of the Parliament building in Charlottetown sharing stories, calling for change, yelling shame at the
Continue readingFor Two Saskatchewan Fetus Fetishist MPs
For Brad Trost and Maurice Vellacott, two MPs who are disgrace to Saskatchewan, Politics’n’Poetry gives you this:
Continue readingROAR!: Uphold the Law on PEI
Before I forget, it’s Day 10, waiting for our Premier, Robert Ghiz and Liberal MP’s Sean Casey and Lawrence MacAulay to comment on Resolution #58. 10days since the PEI NDP asked they tell Islanders how they voted. Each day of silence is a reminder to women on PEI that our
Continue readingROAR!: Abortion on PEI – Liberals need a National push
Access to reproductive health services, including legal abortion, is guaranteed under the Canada Health Act – Fact. Our one lone female leader on PEI, Olive Crane, happy with a status quo, obviously not a feminist, has decided to look the other way. PEI Liberals say we have access because we can
Continue readingROAR!: PEI City Councillor tweets on Abortion!
Have a look – http://i.minus.com/jg2ZnqiUbZK5H.png – that’s a link to a static pic of the Tweet, captured by folks who thought maybe the Summerside City Councillor might try to deny tweeting it, might claim his account was hacked, or might just delete it. But no, apparently he was interviewed by CBC Radio reporter yesterday
Continue readingROAR!: Resolution #58 Ghiz, Casey and MacAulay – Day 9
Silence!Day 9 Since PEI NDP called on Premier Ghiz and Liberal MP’s Sean Casey and Lawrence MacAulay to tell Islanders how they voted, if they voted and what they thought of Resolution #58, passed at the recent Biennial Convention. Still a wall of silence from our Liberal Party on PEI.
Continue reading‘Fetus Fetish’ takes on whole new meaning in Texas
This is so off the wall to be considered truly sick. Yet in Texas, it’s barely raising eyebrows. THANKS to an appeals court ruling last week, doctors in Texas may be forced to deliver a speech describing the physical features of a fetus before they perform abortions. And women will
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Access to Abortion under Siege in the US – The Guttmacher Institute’s Depressing Overview
The pace is accelerating at which a woman’s right to choose is being taken away from her. The US is going crazy, one state at a time, the Guttmacher Institute documents the slide into insanity. “January 5, 2012 By almost any measure, issues related to reproductive health and rights at
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Conservative MP seeks to open emotive abortion debate
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has made it clear his government will not reopen the abortion debate. But Stephen Woodworth, the Conservative MP for Kitchener Centre wants to reverse course. And force Parliament to enact a …Read More
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Abortion BACK On The (Hidden) Agenda!
From Stephen Woodworth this morning: A recent poll disclosed that 80% of Canadians believe that Canadian law protects the fundamental human rights of children before birth in the later stages of gestation. In fact, the opposite is true. Canadian law provides no human rights protection whatsoever for children before the
Continue readingRedBedHead: Is Siri Anti-Choice?
My wife, who is a pro-choice photographer and activist, sent me a tumblr post the other day about the inability of people using the Siri, personal assistant on the iPhone 4S, to get it to access abortion or birth control services. As the screen grab above demonstrates, while you can’t
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What the Crap P.E.I? – No Access to Abortion/Reproductive Services?
Our friends who live on the East coast seem to be clinging to a few anachronistic views about the autonomy of women and the spectrum of choice that should be available to them when it comes to reproductive services. “Even though it’s a legal medical procedure, P.E.I. remains the
Continue readingBirth Pangs: Prince Edward Island Reproductive Rights Organization Rally
Support reproduction choice in PEI Saturday, November 19 · 12:00pm – 4:00pm Location: Peace Fountain by Province House on Grafton Street PRRO – Prince Edward Island Reproductive Rights Organization – is organizing a reproductive rights rally to inform residents of Prince Edward Island what reproductive rights women are entitled to
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Zygotes ≠ “Persons”
While it may be argued in the most technically extreme biological sense that “life begins at conception” as devoutly religious people maintain to be the case, it is a complete absurdity to contend that a fertilized egg (aka a zygote) … Continue reading →
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Did You Know PEI Doesn’t Allow Legal Abortions?
I certainly didn’t. But it’s true – PEI’s abortion laws are horribly behind the times.Fact is, I doubt it’s ever mattered too much to any Islander, given that it’s a trip across the Confederation Bridge and you’ll be in a province that does (nearest cl…
Continue readingAngela Lanfranchi is Not a Feminist
I feel like I’m going more and more annoyed as time passes with pro-lifers who think that it is feminist (for whatever reason), to deny women the right to our bodily integrity. And now, they are combining that strange hybrid of feminism and misog…
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