As the children of Attawapiskat endure yet another day of grinding poverty, the “Harper Government” cries “Oh look! A fetus!”: A Conservative MP is seeking to reopen Canada’s abortion debate, apparently against his government’s wishes, by asking Parliament to consider “21st century medical evidence” on when a fetus becomes a
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wmtc: from newspeak central: frederick douglass, susan b. anthony, and the anti-abortion-rights movement
Paging George Orwell: a new US anti-abortion bill is named Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act. Good story plus mostly good comments at the link, too. Thanks to James.
Continue readingA Report on Abortion Services in Ontario
A few weeks ago, Echo: Improving Women’s Health in Ontario. (an agency of the provincial government), released a report on the state of abortion access in the province. A detailed copy of the report has been posted by the Institute of Feminist Leg…
Continue readingRally for Abortion Rights Tomorrow
As some of you may know, Campaign Life Coalition Youth is organizing a “protest,” since they don’t believe that women deserve publicly funded health care. More details are here.
Continue readingSmall Government!
When people like Michele Bachmann (R-Batshit) jabber inanely about “small government”, what they mean is government so small it can crawl up your vagina and do an ultrasound of the contents of your womb: Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) proposed a bill on Thursday that would force women in the early stages of […]
wmtc: random notes: amira hass, ry cooder, planned parenthood, and more
Time to collect some of the scraps of paper scribbled all over my desk… Amira Hass will be speaking at the University of Toronto tomorrow night. Hass is an Israeli journalist based in Ramallah, and the only Israeli journalist to live in the occupied …
Continue readingwmtc: most important search string of the day ever
Search string of the day:doctors told me to get an abortion to save my life what should i doThis is what you should do: GET AN ABORTION.Your life is more important than a fetus. You can get pregnant again. If for some reason you can’t have biological c…
Continue reading“Online Hellfire” Unleashed on Hudak
Thankfully, online reactions to Hudak’s 1995 comments on the topic of abortion have been swift. And, apparently, according to Chris Selley over at the National Post, merciless: And there is a subset of Canadians that unleashes online hellfire aga…
Continue readingTim Hudak Would Seek to Defund Abortion Services in Ontario
Currently, women in Ontario who are in need of undergoing an abortion procedure have the “luxury” of having the services covered under Ontario Health Insurance (OHIP). As suggested in the press over the last week, this might not be the ca…
Continue readingA Pro-Life Voice That I Can Listen To
Today, I received a very interesting and thought-provoking e-mail from a person who knew Mary Wagner, (a more than willing candidate for pro-life martyrdom, it seems), from her time as an undergraduate at the University of Victoria. However, what is …
Continue readingThe Kielburger Brothers Are Feminist and Christian Fundamentalists Are Out of Touch with Reality… As Always
Devout Christians are always in touch with reality, a fact I’ve come to appreciate in my teens, having grown up as a Catholic and received religious education since kindergarten. Craig Kielburger, one of the founders of Free the Children, an orga…
Continue readingPodcast on Reproductive Rights in Canada
The always amazing Canadian news site rabble.ca has posted a podcast by People’s Health Radio: From birth control, to abortion, to access to information and education, what’s happening with sexual health for women in Canada? We talk to Greg…
Continue readingwmtc: "abortion saved my life" and other tales of human rights
What does abortion access look like to women who don’t have any? What does it mean to be unable to obtain an abortion when you need one?
The anti-choice movement in the US has succeeded beyond most of our worst nightmares. Although early abortion is …
Continue readingPro-Life Bill in the Fall? Abortion Rights Under Harper
I should have posted this two weeks ago, in the aftermath of the National March for Life. Julie van Dusen, a CBC reporter, interviewed (I think) the director of the Campaign Life Coalition and according to him, there will be an anti-choice private memb…
Continue readingNew Resolutions: A Series of Resolutions on the Environment, the Party, Housing & Reproductive Rights
Proposed by Andy Lehrer, TorontoDate: 25/05/11A Resolution Regarding the EnvironmentWhereas climate change is a growing threat to survival on the planet.Whereas capitalism provides no viable or sustainable solutions to the environmental crisis;Be it th…
Continue readingAnother bill bites the dust
Steve walks warily in to vote on the latest anti-choice bill Ain’t no sound but the sound of him telling his flunkies to vote to kill The foetishists are ready, they’re ready for this, they’re hangin’ on the edge of their seats Out of Lifesite the shrieking rips, to the sound of the tweets Another […]