When trying to understand the political landscape it is often useful to figure out the various couplings and interdependencies between superficially disparate political positions. Politics divides itself into widespread factions, or parties, where ea…
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Montreal Simon: Heather Mallick Has a Message for Tim Hudak…
You can run but you can’t hide.Hudak thinks it’s sufficient to promise he won’t reopen the debate on abortion rights, although such a debate is not occurring in Ontario and the fact that he thinks it is says a lot about his views.A politician’s p…
Continue readingTrashy's World: YES! Two smoking cessation aids now part of Ontario Drug Benefit Plan!!
This is great news! When I quit 7 years ago, I used Zyban, the patch, nico-gum… everything I could get my hands on! And they worked! Fortunately, the costs were covered under my drug plan… but most folks aren’t so lucky. Lower future health care costs will many times over pay for the costs of […]
Continue readingImpolitical: More of that "real ‘gotcha’"
So you may have noticed that Fern Hill at Dammit Janet has been on a roll recently in terms of raising questions about Tim Hudak’s position on abortion and whether he just might defund access were he ever (heaven forbid) to become Premier of our fair p…
Continue readingWell, Well, I do Believe Somebody Touched a Nerve, Mr. Penninga
Wassamatter, Mr. Penninga? Somebody’s having a bad day, I see. Doncha just hate it when people when folks ask questions and think outside the box?
Before you have a hissy fit, I live in Quebec, and thus, not eligible to vote in Ontario and I am fortunate to live in a province, where . . . → Read More: Well, Well, I do Believe Somebody Touched a Nerve, Mr. Penninga
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Did You Sign The Abortion Petition, Tim Hudak?
Apparently, the man who wants to be Ontario’s next premier signed a petition seeking to end abortion funding. But Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak only admits that he ”may have” signed the damn thing. “May …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Not Helping
From the ARPA website:An old ARPA article from 2009 has been getting a lot of attention in Ontario over the past few days in light of comments about Tim Hudak and whether he is pro-life. In light of that, we checked back through our old emails from two…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Flip…FLOP!
When he was running for the PC leadership in 2009, Hudak told the Association for Reformed Political Action he is pro-life and had signed petitions calling for the defunding of abortions. Hudak said today he “may have” signed a petition in that regard,…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Question Of The Day
A question which, incidentally, has no good answer. And, by the way, defunding abortion is not a decades old position, as Hudak staffer Jacob Bloom has suggested (in a tweet he seems to have deep-sixed, so he probably has realized that by now); i…
Continue readingRethuglicans Despise Regulations Except To Regulate What They Don’t Like & Andrea Mrozek Says That Roe V Wade is Anti-Democratic
There are only three clinics that provide abortions left in the state of Kansas. That is three too many for the Rethuglican Kansas governor. like many other state governors, this winner is finding new fangled, creative ways of circumventing Roe v Wade. They’re doing it by taking a new liking to red tape . . . → Read More: Rethuglicans Despise Regulations Except To Regulate What They Don’t Like & Andrea Mrozek Says That Roe V Wade is Anti-Democratic
Continue readingBirth Pangs: Here’s Your Sign
Greg Fultz has been ordered to remove the billboard he erected to harass his ex. His lawyer says there will be an appeal and the Futz is willing to go to jail to protect is his right to be a complete douchebag free speech. Source ©2011 Birth Pangs. All Rights Reserved..
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Extinguishing Women’s Rights – One State at a Time.
Liberty in the land of the brave, and the home of the free seems to be missing a clause somewhere because liberty is not really working well for women, especially if looking for access to reproductive health services such as abortion. The Alternet article lists the top 10 states where Abortion is virtually illegal. […]
Facebook essay, The right to choice supersedes the right to life for society to achieve justice, freedom and equality for the fairer sex
Recently, I have been engaging in some heated debates on the blogosphere about the question of abortion and women’s rights. And I have had the fortune of talking to people with various moral attitudes, from pro-choice to moderate, to pro-life. The…
Continue readingConversation I had with a die hard, far-right, religious conservative on the subject of abortion
Myself and a religious blogger were discussing abortion over the past few days, as I responded to one of his blog posts. Here is the conversation in its entirety:
My response to the blog post:
I would submit that it is extremely rare for a twelve yea…
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Twitter Tuesday: Doubling-down on Santorum’s "Man-on-dog" slippery slope.
The blogger previously known as ALL-CAPS SUZANNE FORTIN (but who you cannot refer to by name now, lest she throw a twitter tantrum over it) has once again unwittingly illustrated the conservative tendency to reject reason and logic as relevant to morals. Echoing the Catholic Church’s ridiculous efforts to blame
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Twitter Tuesday: Doubling-down on Santorum’s "Man-on-dog" slippery slope.
The blogger previously known as ALL-CAPS SUZANNE FORTIN (but who you cannot refer to by name now, lest she throw a twitter tantrum over it) has once again unwittingly illustrated the conservative tendency to reject reason and logic as relevant to morals. Echoing the Catholic Church’s ridiculous efforts to blame
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Twitter Tuesday: Doubling-down on Santorum’s "Man-on-dog" slippery slope.
The blogger previously known as ALL-CAPS SUZANNE FORTIN (but who you cannot refer to by name now, lest she throw a twitter tantrum over it) has once again unwittingly illustrated the conservative tendency to reject reason and logic as relevant to moral…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Pro-Life Position you Don’t Hear.
Snipped from a Pharyngula Thread -cowalker says: “It has long been one of my patented rants that all the poor menz who are out there weeping over aborted embryos and picketing women’s clinics should instead be policing their brother’s dicks. All this time they’ve been whining about the perfidy of women, the solution has been […]
Bouquets of Gray: Estimating crowd sizes
There has been rather different estimates of how many people are in this picture: The CBC report that the police estimated this crowd at 5000 (here); Lifesite claimed 15,000 (here), and the National Post, 20,000 (here). Crowd estimation isn’t too difficult a business. The basic procedure is to multiply the
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: In Defense of Abortion
In this month’s Canadian federal election, abortion was not an issue. However, whenever election time roles around in North America, the issue of abortion tends to garner at least a little bit more conversation than normal, even if it is not a specific policy issue. Social conservatives will want to elect politicians who may one […]