Wladyslaw Lizon, Member of Parliament for Mississauga Cooksville East (my own riding), is back in the news. The Conservative MP has teamed up with two of his fellow backbenchers in an attack on Canadian women’s reproductive rights. The last time Lizon surfaced, he had “alerted” Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason
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Boreal Citizen: Women’s rights, religion and the population crisis
World population has increased from under 1-billion in 1800 to over 7-billion today–that’s just over 200 years. So that’s an extraordinary rate of population increase. If we saw that in any other species, we’d say, “Wow, that species is headed for a crash.” We don’t think that way when we
Continue readingwmtc: must-watch video: how canadian women won abortion rights and what we must do to keep them
The Harper anti-choice brigade is back in the news, this time taking aim at a different abortion controversy to try to chip away at our fundamental rights. Wladyslaw Lizon – sadly, the MP for my own riding – is holding forth against later-term procedures. (You may remember Lizon’s name through
Continue readingwmtc: 25 years since morgentaler: celebrate and re-commit to action
Twenty-five years ago, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned the federal abortion law in the Morgentaler decision, making Canada one of the few countries in the world without criminal restrictions on abortion access. That historic court decision was the result of activism on the part of women and their allies,
Continue readingwmtc: 40 years old and already irrelevant: happy birthday roe v wade
Right now there are no American women who were of reproductive age prior to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. Yet reproductive rights in the US have never been more threatened. 2011 marked the passage of the most state-level restrictive abortion laws ever. 2012 saw the
Continue readingwmtc: anti-choice group advertises on… hangers. yes, hangers.
Apparently this is not a story from The Onion. From Reproductive Health Reality Check: There is a branch of anti-choice activists that will use pretty much anything as a medium for their message: newspaper ads, graphic signs displayed in front of schools, bus stop benches. You would think they would
Continue readingwmtc: carolyn egan: we will leave no woman behind
On this day of remembrance of women lost to violence, here is Carolyn Egan, a woman I am proud to call friend and comrade, accepting the the Constance E. Hamilton Award on the Status of Women.
Continue readingwmtc: pollitt: when "pro-life" kills: honour savita’s memory with a donation to help other irish women
Who is more valuable, a living woman or a dying fetus? The Catholic Church has given its answer, and Savita Halapannavar is dead. If this was Islam, we’d never hear the end of it.Follow developments, including notifications about protests and demonst…
Continue readingwmtc: death by anti-choice: irish woman, denied termination during spontaneous miscarriage, dies
This is what no access to safe and legal abortion looks like.Two investigations are under way into the death of a woman who was 17 weeks pregnant, at University Hospital Galway last month.Savita Halappanavar (31), a dentist, presented with back pain at…
Continue readingwmtc: voting for obama because of the supreme court? please check your math
When making the case for the differences between US Democrats and Republicans, many people’s first thought is the Supreme Court. High on their list of the importance of SCOTUS is usually Roe v. Wade, the case that established abortion rights for American women. There was a time when I would
Continue readingwmtc: she said let’s discuss abortion. i told her to fuck off.
She said she’d pray for me. I said nothing. She said let’s discuss abortion. I told her to fuck off. * * * * Long ago, I blogged about receiving a holiday card with a proselytizing message underlined in red. Wmtc readers had a good discussion around it, with responses
Continue readingwmtc: the politics of sex-selective abortion: there shouldn’t be any
Hard on the heels of the defeat of Motion 312 – on the mind-bending spectacle of the Minister of the Status of Women voting with the anti-choice contingent, on the sobering sight of de facto Deputy Prime Minister Jason Kenney voting the way a former U.S. anti-abortion activist could be expected to
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Motion 312 and reproductive rights: pay attention to what Tories do, not to what they say
What? What? I’m pro-choice and pro-life, Edmonton St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber seems to say in this shot grabbed from his website. Below: Kitchener Centre MP Stephen Woodworth. In this era of routine political deceit, wise voters are advised to pay attention to what their elected representatives actually do, not
Continue readingRandom Ranting Raving and Ratings: Covert Attempt to Criminalize Abortion – MPs Debate in less then 48 hours
From LeadNow.ca
‘In just 48 hours, our MPs will debate a Conservative motion that the Canadian Medical Association, representing 70,000 doctors, is calling a ‘backdoor’ attempt to criminalize abortion. Prime Minister Harper has chosen to allow this motion to go forward to a free vote in…
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Continue readingRandom Ranting Raving and Ratings: Covert Attempt to Criminalize Abortion – MPs Debate in less then 48 hours
From LeadNow.ca ‘In just 48 hours, our MPs will debate a Conservative motion that the Canadian Medical Association, representing 70,000 doctors, is calling a ‘backdoor’ attempt to criminalize abortion. Prime Minister Harper has chosen to allow this motion to go forward to a free vote in… ..
Continue readingRandom Ranting Raving and Ratings: Covert Attempt to Criminalize Abortion – MPs Debate in less then 48 hours
From LeadNow.ca ‘In just 48 hours, our MPs will debate a Conservative motion that the Canadian Medical Association, representing 70,000 doctors, is calling a ‘backdoor’ attempt to criminalize abortion. Prime Minister Harper has chosen to allow this motion to go forward to a free vote… ..
Continue readingwmtc: marxism 2012 program notes: how abortion rights were won in canada
One of the most exciting and illuminating sessions I attended at the 2012 Marxism Conference was a history of how abortion rights were won – and are threatened – in both the UK and Canada. I am honoured that some of my friends and comrades from the peace movement were
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: The Republican War on Women Continues – Mississippi Failing
The United States is regressing quickly under the burden of its plutocratic elites. Public health and the rights of women are under onslaught by ignorant religious ideologues who espouse intensely anti-woman rhetoric that undermines the ideals of civilized society. You would think that idiocy on this scale would quickly
Continue readingTrashy's World: Friday miscellany…
… absenteeism, heat and, of course, the Del Mastro edition.. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ There is a lot of talk around this “leaked” document purportedly (I say purportedly, because very few have actually seen it) showing that public servant absenteeism is a BIG problem costing Canadians GAZILLIONS of $$$’s a year!!! The Sixth
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