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…
reproductive rights
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 –…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
U.S. Conference Of Mayors Passes Pro-Choice Resolution-today in HuffPost
This is very heartening, and flies in the face of what Repug-led States are attempting with their regressive anti-women stances…I’m happy and relieved to see that the entire country hasn’t…
what i’m reading / marxism 2012 program notes: "too many people?" population, immigration, and the environment
I’ve just finished reading Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis by Ian Angus and Simon Butler. Co-author Angus spoke at the 2012 Marxism conference; I wasn’t able…