m312: harper gets our message
So the first hour of debate on the not-so-stealth abortion motion did not go well for Mr. Woodworth. The Opposition parties came out strongly in favour of the 21st century…
reproductive rights
m312: it doesn’t matter when life begins. that’s not the issue.
When does life begin? Perhaps this is a question for philosophers, or theologians. Perhaps it is a question for scientists. It is not a question for Parliamentarians. It is not…
add your voice to voices against motion 312
More to come, much more, so much more that I haven’t been able to post coherently about this because I have so much to say. So while I struggle with…
texas anti-choice sonogram law: doonesbury cartoon and very real life
If you haven’t seen the abortion-related Doonesbury cartoons that many US newspapers refused to run, you can read them here. Go Garry Go. More importantly, if you would like to…
Woodworth’s Wank Revisited
Like many progressives, fern hill is looking for a way to unite the opposition parties, and she may have found one. Regular readers will recall MP Stephen Woodworth’s bilious bleating…
Doonesbury “Shaming Room” too much for sensitive newspapers
Last week several newspapers censored the first of a series of Doonesbury comics addressing the current climate and discussion about women’s reproductive rights (specifically, in this case, abortion). The Center…
Shakedown!
I guess Karen Handel has never heard about the First Rule of Holes — when you’re in one, stop digging: Karen Handel, the former senior vice president of public policy…
celebrate international women’s day 2012
Today is International Women’s Day. We’ve come a long way. And we’ve still got a long way to go. Globally, the picture looks much worse. See the current issue of…
Is That All There Is?
Comedian Rush Limbaugh – who is, it seems these days, the virtual leader of the increasingly deranged Republican Party – did the Democrats a huge favour the other day with…
Ron Paul, Contraceptives & Abortion
Of the four(4) GOP primary candidates still standing, the only one I can even come close to listening to with a serious ear is libertarian Ron Paul. Now before everyone…
get ready to fight: fetal rights debate coming soon to canada’s parliament
In case you missed it: Tory MP Stephen Woodworth wants human rights for unborn children A Conservative MP is defying his party’s leadership with a move to rewrite Canadian laws…
pollitt: komen foundation pinkwashes anti-choicers, punks planned parenthood
The one and only Katha Pollitt: The anti-choice movement can be so clumsy, and so weird, we forget that it is also smart and strategic and busy busy busy. Because…
who is behind the susan g. komen foundation’s decision to cut ties with planned parenthood?
When a leading breast-cancer charity severs its relationship with the largest provider of reproductive health services in the US, we have to ask, who is behind this terrible decision? The…
For Two Saskatchewan Fetus Fetishist MPs
For Brad Trost and Maurice Vellacott, two MPs who are disgrace to Saskatchewan, Politics’n’Poetry gives you this:
occupy the u.s. election, part 1: "we can vote for romney or obama, but goldman sachs and exxonmobil and bank of america and the defense contractors always win."
Occasionally a bit of slime seeps from the sewer of the Republican primaries into my oxygen, and I feel the need to share the smell. When a public figure says…
Reproductive McCarthyism and a new nadir of authoritarian dumbness
Frankly, it didn’t surprise me a bit that SUZANNE would be All In with the idea of publishing a database of personal information and photos of gynecologists and other reproductive…
Happy Birthday Roe v. Wade
Let the shrieeeeeeekfest begin. Yeah yeah yeah. Today America celebrates 39 years of the right to reproductive choice, a hard-fought battle that continues to this very day in spite of…
Give it up, Woodworth
When you’ve lost the National Post, it’s Game Over: Anyone paying attention over the past few weeks would have spotted the most unlikely of Canadian events: a debate over abortion.…
“If you’re pre-born you’re fine, if you’re pre-school you’re fucked*
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,…
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…