Assuming that the world survives this coming December 21, the United States Supreme Court is expected to rule on two cases in June which could result in the nation-wide legalization of gay marriage. I cannot forecast with certainty how the court will decide, but supposing for a moment that it
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Dead Wild Roses: A Grand New Low for Pro-Life sites equating Abortion to Sandyhook Elementary Victims
Hypocrisy is flowing from the anti-choice sites like turds from a overfull diaper. The idea that they are somehow committed to the preservation of life is the weapons-grade bullshite that religious thinking actively promotes. The pious fucks are equating abortion to the recent mass murder at Sandyhook Elementary School. How
Continue readingROAR!: Taking discrimination out of Healthcare – PEI
Here is an editorial I wrote, published in The Guardian this past week: Let’s take discrimination out of Healthcare At the recent Health PEI Annual General meeting, the slogan that ran with their logo was ‘Safe, Quality Healthcare in tight financial times’. This current government’s way of letting Islanders know
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Abortion Quote of the Week – Dianne
Reading though threads on abortion always raises my blood pressure, but it is worth it for gems like this: Dianne: “Either it is okay to abort, or it is okay to rape” Occasionally I shock people by saying that all anti-choice men are, on some level, rapists. Many never complete the act of rape personally*, […]
ROAR!: Robert Ghiz – I don’t know if you remember me – Abortion on PEI
‘I don’t know if you guys remember me?’ says a young woman standing at a microphone, before a panel at Health PEI’s 2nd annual general meeting. She is soft spoken, her question is studied, her position informed, and her persistance, commendable. She stands in front of what is surely a group of individuals
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Savita Halappanavar’s Death – Victory for the Irish Catholic “Pro-Life” Murder Brigade
I needed some time to digest this story… Sorry folks but that is a lie. I needed some time to come back to a (relatively) coherent state before I could write reasonably about what went down with Savita Halappanavar. A post filled with nothing but white-hot rage and invective against the pustulant ass-pimples known as […]
BigCityLib Strikes Back: File Under: Bleeding Obvious
“In the absence of anything else happening, it appears [Conservative] MP Stephen Woodworth’s attempt to re-open the abortion debate had the effect of hardening opinion in favour of legal abortion.”This is why I’m happy to let the Harper Tor…
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Why do a majority of Canadians want abortion back in the criminal code?
Canadians, thanks to our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, have certain rights. Almost all, however, are not absolute. We have the right to assemble, provided it is peaceful. We are protected from search and seizure, unless the grounds are deemed reasonable. We have freedom of expression, but it is
Continue readingMontreal Simon: When Religion is Murder
Almost every day of my life I read about the cruelty of religion, its ignorance, its bigotry, its barbarism.But most of the time I just shake my head and don't say anything.For what's the point eh? People will believe what they want to believe,…
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: The Persistence of Misogyny
It has been fashionable for as long as I can remember for bitter males, along with a few reactionary female allies, to claim that the feminist movement not only succeeded in eliminating the traditional gender power structure, but inverted it. Women, they complain, are now on top, occupying the positions
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Religious Antagonist – Ultrasounds and Abortion
The RA doing what he does best, getting in the face of people who seek to strip people of their status as human beings. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Abortion, Anti-woman legislation, Pro-life, Pro-life fail, Ultrasounds
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: It’s the Law…
Important issue: did you like having control of your ladyparts? Do get out and vote and stop the republican war on women. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Abortion, Feminism, Republican War on Women
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Hudak PC’s support for defunding abortion runs much deeper than a press conference
On International Day of the Girl, Tim Hudak can try to put shiny gloss on the PC Party, he can pretend his party is focused on the economy, but this is what the heart of the Hudak PC Party is, with his frontbench MPP’s sponsoring a news conference supporting the defunding of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Abortion Worldwide – What the Anti-Choicers deny and don’t want you to know.
Need fetus porn and bullshit arguments? Look up your local, if you’re unlucky, pro-life chapter. This video illustrates the basic lie that hovers below the surface of much of pro-life land. Being pro-life is *not* about preserving life it is about removing choice from women, thus in reality anti-choice is
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Sex-selection abortion – The perfect wedge?
The abortion debate, such as it is, is dominated by the extremes. While polling indicates a majority of Canadians hold a nuanced view, hard liners believe in either a total ban or complete and unfettered access to the procedure. According to a recent Ipsos Reid poll, fully 60% of those
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Pro Choice abortion advocates can breathe easy…for now
On Wednesday Canada’s Parliament voted down a motion put forward by Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth that called for the creation of a committee to study at what point human life begins. Had the motion passed it opened up the possibility that a fetus could be given legal recognition. In turn
Continue readingLeft Over: Rona, are You Paying Attention?
Democracy 101..When a person of either gender is elected to office, and then appointed to a Ministry, (s)he is obligated to vote based, not on personal belief, but on the verifiable will of the people…further, as a Federal Minister, that person should take into consideration the will of the majority
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Science Shows Progressives Aren’t Science-Based
Most progressives claim to be science-based, but in their opposition to Motion 312, science ironically proves they’re not. Unless a party somewhere has Newton’s Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica as their platform, no political organization is science-based. If any Liberal or New Democrat wants to be part of an institution with
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rona Ambrose and the Wacky Woody Show
About five years ago I made this button of Rona Ambrose. So I'm glad to see that my confidence in her was fully justified.Canada’s minister for the status of women joined nine other Conservative cabinet ministers and dozens of backbenchers in voting in favour of a motion to study the
Continue readingknitnut.net: I was wrong
I’m outraged that Rona Ambrose, Minister of State for the Status of Women in Canada, voted to re-open the abortion debate. The legal right to choose if and when to have children is absolutely fundamental to women’s rights, and I find it appalling that there’s an anti-feminist in charge at
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