I’m sure you remember what Stephen Harper said during the election campaign last year. Well, that was one big fat lie, as expected. Stephen Woodworth is an MP who has been agitating to re-open the debate on women’s reproductive rights (what year are we in?) and today, a committee of MPs has agreed to
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Genocide Awareness Project Straight to Your Mail!
Desperate time call for desperate measures… If you live in Calgary, it is possible that you received a postcard with a GAP image (and no, I don’t mean a slim, retouched model promoting overprice apparel). The people behind it are from the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform, fronted by one self-righteous individual named
Continue readingStephen Woodworth Makes a Comeback
Much to my annoyance, Woodworth didn’t go away. I really did hope that he would, but given his pre-Xmas efforts to reignite the “debate” on women’s rights failed, he’s back for some more. “Don’t accept any law that says some human beings are not human beings! […] It’s because each of you is a
Continue readingStephen Woodworth’s Little Toe Debate
There’s been a lot of coverage on the (supposedly) potential re-opening of the abortion debate (yet, again) in the living rooms of the nation (not likely) and in the Parliament (highly unlikely). The latest attempt at igniting bickering comes courtesy of Kitchener Centre MP Stephen Woodworth. Badly timed, I think. I attended a
Continue readingAbortion Access in Prince Edward Island
Can be best described as non-existent. According to the CBC’s The Current, some women are so desperate to terminate their pregnancies that they self-induce. Those who are able to afford the expense are required to travel to Fredericton or H…
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…
Continue readingShoppers Drug Mart Locations Support Anti-Choice Orgs
It has come to my attention that the same company that happily provides me with birth control pills (and even Plan B) in exchange for my hard earned cash is equally happy to donate funds to crisis pregnancies centres through their annual Tree of Life c…
Continue readingThe Importance of Funding for Abortion Services
In light of some skewed statistics coming from Campaign Life Coalition & co., I was happy to come across a very well written essay by Joyce Arthur, Why Abortion Care Must Be Fully Funded. Whereas some misogynist heartlessly dares to claim th…
Continue readingAbortion Rights Coalition of Canada and Pro-Life Comments on This Blog
Argh. Some time ago, one of my acquaintances was trying to cheer me up. She was trying to convince me that it is possible to turn positive into negative. She probably read one of those self-help books which I loathe and of course I didn’t buy h…
Continue readingKelowna’s Anti-Choice Week
If you live near Kelowna, BC or plan to visit it anytime soon, there’s a good reason why you might want to boycott local tourism, businesses or wineries. It appears that the city is observing something called “Protect Human Life Week.”…
Continue readingNon-Religious Pro-Lifers?
For the last few years (circa 2008 or when I started to pay attention to this anyway), the pro-life movement has been attempting to brand itself as non-religious. “Pro-life because we are pro-fetus… No, wait. This sounds better: Pro-life be…
Continue readingMore of Those Classic “Abortion is Murder” Images
Once again, pro-life demonstrators display lack of common decency and decide to parade with a bunch of Genocide Awareness Project photographs, this time in Ottawa Valley: A group called Show the Truth, which aims to provoke debate by displaying expl…
Continue readingLinda Gibbons Resurfaces in Front of the Morgentaler Clinic in Toronto
Just like she promised back in June, Linda Gibbons is continuing her crusade of harassment of women entering abortion clinics in Toronto. However, as she must have expected, her usual martyrdom was cut short, first by the security guard employed by t…
Continue readingAnti-Choice Picketers Arrested in Vancouver
What a surprise. In Canada, if you break the law, you will be charged, and if you found guilty of violating it, you will be faced with consequences, even if the law attempts to strike a balance between the rights of two distinctive societal groups. Mee…
Continue readingWhy Your Comment Wasn’t Approved or Your E-mail Not Answered
Occasionally, here at Pro-Woman, Pro-Choice, we receive inane e-mails and comments, which are usually from anti-choice men who feel the need to lecture us on the evils of feminism and how the movement is responsible for everything that is wrong with th…
Continue readingFetal Rights Legislation in the US and Canada
When I started this blog back in April (even though it had been on my mind prior to that for months), I decided that I wanted to focus on reproductive rights within the Canadian context as my main subject. I felt (and I still do) that there aren’…
Continue readingOutrage in Calgary Over GAP Images
I wonder why the folks from the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR) are so shocked (shocked!) to discover that they are not welcome to shove their medieval beliefs down students’ throats outside of high schools in Calgary. Stephanie Gra…
Continue readingLinda Gibbons is Set to Continue Her Crusade
Ugh, what a surprise. Two days after being released from jail, Gibbons revealed in an interview with the National Post (the only paper that bothers reporting about her legal troubles) that she would continue to trespass onto the properties of several a…
Continue readingLinda Gibbons Out of Jail
Linda Gibbons, the second Canadian candidate for pro-life martyrdom (the other being Mary Wagner) and the self-styled “prisoner of conscience” (which tells me that her conscience is insane, being the principal reason why she has managed t…
Continue readingIf Canada Were To Become A Theocracy…
Not surprisingly, abortion rights would be the first to go. According to one of my least favourite online reads, Life Site News, the Knights of Columbus (read: old white men) are joining forces across Canada to make all pregnancies, wanted or unwanted,…
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