I would very much like to stop posting about M312, it has been a horrible and fantastic alarm. But I’m awake now. We’re all awake now. Here is what I now know. Here is what I will not forget: A motion like M312 would not have come up through the ranks
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Impolitical: 203-91
The video above is the National’s report from last night on the incredible Commons vote on Motion 312 that would have put a woman’s right to choose on the legislative table in Ottawa. It is stunning that in a country like ours, as progressive as we might like to think
Continue readingFive of Five: Motion to examine definition of human being defeated in Commons
Toronto Star:
OTTAWA—A Conservative MP’s pro-life bid to have Parliament study the definition of a human being has gone down to defeat in the House of Commons.
Stephen Woodworth’s motion was voted down 203-91.
Eight cabinet ministers voted in fa…
Five of Five: Motion to examine definition of human being defeated in Commons
Toronto Star: OTTAWA—A Conservative MP’s pro-life bid to have Parliament study the definition of a human being has gone down to defeat in the House of Commons. Stephen Woodworth’s motion was voted down 203-91. Eight cabinet ministers voted in favour of the motion, including Status of Women Minister Rona Ambrose,
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: M-312 Aborted, Questions Live On
If a pregnant woman with a 38 week old fetus is violently attacked and survives but the fetus dies there is no charge of murder. Is that just? Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth proposed Motion 312 ostensibly to update the archaic definition of when life begins in the Canadian legal code,
Continue readingTrashy's World: M 312…
… is happily dead. 203-91. Happily. Wait till the next one. It’ll happen. Defenders of a woman’s right to choose. Be vigilant. (6) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingROAR!: The man who made M312 about him – Abortion in Canada
My hat is off, to the man who managed to make M312 about him! My MP, Sean Casey. When a Conservative MP in Ontario put forward his ‘personhood bill’ last Spring I began the long and annoying process of trying to get my MP to publicly state how he would
Continue readingROAR!: M312 – this far, no further! | Abortion in Canada
Conservative MP for Kitchner, Ontario, Stephen Woodworth brought forward a Republican-style motion last Spring, to discuss the definition of a human being – #M312. This motion has opened my eyes to two things; 1) that I don’t always need to be watching the U.S. news to hear about ‘personhood bills’ and 2) that in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Since when does the GOP make sense on Womens Issues?
Who would have thunk? Filed under: Politics Tagged: Abortion, Decent Republicans, Politics, Pro-Choice, Pro-life
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: PETITION: Mayor of Kelowna Must Rescind Anti-abortion Proclamation
This petition is sponsored by the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada / Coalition pour le droit à l’avortement au Canada. It calls on Walter Gray, the Mayor of Kelowna, B.C., to rescind his recent proclamation of September 23-30, 2012, as the “Protect Human Life Week”. Dear Mayor Walter Gray, The signatories to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Abortion Saves Women’s Lives – Anti-Choice really is Anti-Woman
This is a snippet from the Raw Story. Go there and read the full article about how the republican party of the US want to happily join impoverished nations in destroying female autonomy. The fetus-fetish crew never seem to key on the fact that women are alive and are actually
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The War on Women in the United States
If it happens down south, you know who is next in line. Support this video, reblog it, post it everywhere. The rights of women are threatened, take action and don’t let the bad guys (aka republicans) win. Filed under: Education, Feminism, Medicine, Politics Tagged: Abortion, Feminism, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive Freedom,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Christian “Anti-Choice” Site Advocates No Abortion for Child Rape Victims.
Christian ‘morals’ plus the abortion issue and dudes, you know where we are headed…. I’m not sure if I like the “reader” function that wordpress offers as a part of its blogging platform. Searching the Abortion tag seems to consistently raise my blood pressure because of beastly shite that I
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: In Canada, Abortion Could Become Illegal Again As Soon As This Fall
So say Canada’s doctors, and who am I to argue? Canada’s doctors have sternly rejected what they see as a stealth attempt to recriminalize abortion. At the general council meeting of the Canadian Medical Association on Wednesday, delegates called on the federal government to reject attempts by a Conservative backbench
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Anti-choice activists are dishonest.
A neat tidbit from the slacktivist. I’ve excerpted a bit here: “If you’re a disabled worker, then you’re protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you’re a pregnant worker and not hindered in job performance, or if you’re pregnant and completely unable to work, then you’re protected under the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Killing is Wrong(?)
The neat thing about bad arguments is that usually they are layered in thick and fast that you don’t catch them the first time,so you have to slow down and rewind the tape to see the intersectionality of wrongness and then unweave the fail. Today’s disservice is dedicated to
Continue readingROAR!: Ghiz asked to defend public healthcare?!
Today in The Guardian an article that must be a joke. Or at least, I guess the joke is on the women of PEI whose primary health care is obviously not part of the equation when people talk about public healthcare. Medicare express set to roll from P.E.I. to Halifax asks Robert
Continue readingROAR!: PEI – looking for big balls/ovaries
The door is indeed open for change, but PEI is without a politician with balls/ovaries big enough to cross the threshold. Today on CBC Sunday Edition there was a great interview about the status of Abortion access on PEI. Being interviewed was Sam Wright of PRRO and Colleen MacQuarrie a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Abortion, for everyone else.
Betty Bowers, albeit somewhat crassly, explains the christian take on abortion. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Abortion, christian “morality”, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingROAR!: PEI MPs & Abortion – See you in Sept. 2012
So Summer is here and no one wants to talk about #M312. Go figure. Afer a million or so tweets and emails, I am unable to get a public answer to ‘how will you vote on #M312’ from any PEI MPs. They also don’t seem interested in posting anything on
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