With parliament preparing to discuss Canada’s position on abortion I wrote about the topic this past Monday, daring to express the opinion that I am not opposed to extending some rights to viable late term fetuses or pre-born babies, excepting ca…

In just under three and a half years I have written or touched on the topic of abortion 21 times.  In fact the most often read post on this blog is “Abortion in Canada Legal – Right Up Until Time of Birth“. Well, here goes num…

In just under three and a half years I have written or touched on the topic of abortion 21 times.  In fact the most often read post on this blog is “Abortion in Canada Legal – Right Up Until Time of Birth”.
Well, here goes number 22.
Canad…

Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Susan Delacourt notes that while the NDP’s leadership convention points out some of the risks of online voting, the real problem lies in the people working to block democracy through any available mean…

Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Susan Delacourt notes that while the NDP’s leadership convention points out some of the risks of online voting, the real problem lies in the people working to block democracy through any available means:While…

The abortion debate will be polarized no matter what, and if the politicians like Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth don’t ensure that, the media will. On March 14 Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth talked with reporters about his private members&…

This is the way you do it.

But his [landlord Todd Stave] tormentors crossed the line last fall when a big group showed up at his daughter’s middle school on the first day of classes and again at back-to-school night. They had signs displaying his name and contact information as well as those gory images of the fetuses. 

“What parent wants to have that conversation with an 11-year-old on the

Island women fight for access in their own province

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND— Kandace Hagen expected her nomination for a youth social justice award to be…

By RamonaIn almost every war, there are those moments when soldiers have to sit back and laugh at the absurdity of it all. Think M*A*S*H, Stalag 17, Catch-22, Slaughterhouse Five. Like that. In the war of the Red States against American Women, while th…

You simply have to go over to DAMMIT JANET! Fern Hill gives Harper`s abortion stalking horse, Stephen Woodworth, a twitter flogging. – Syndicated from http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/

You simply have to go over to DAMMIT JANET! Fern Hill gives Harper`s abortion stalking horse, Stephen Woodworth, a twitter flogging.

By RamonaDon’t expect me to be going over every single attack on women’s rights just because I’m writing about modern-day, 21st-century, 2012, just-in-the-last-month attacks, which, as you might have noticed, are escalating at such a dizzying pace we c…

By Mustang BobbyThere have been a lot of stories — and comic strips — recently about birth control and contraception and the attempt by the Republicans and conservatives to make it an issue in the presidential campaign. But this story from Arizona st…

Himself!This is what happens when an election gets stolen by a bunch of superstitious authoritarian pukes. H/T Dented Blue Mercedes

Himself! This is what happens when an election gets stolen by a bunch of superstitious authoritarian pukes. H/T Dented Blue Mercedes – Syndicated from http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/

Conservative Party backbencher Stephen Woodworth has put forward a motion that will result in a debate in Parliament on abortion in the guise of “when life begins,” in April.read more

Activists in Argentina have been pushing for a debate about the legalisation of abortionACCORDING TO THE BBC, the Supreme Court in Argentina has ruled that women who have an abortion after being raped will no longer be prosecuted.Under Argentine law, a…

Activists in Argentina have been pushing for a debate about the legalisation of abortion ACCORDING TO THE BBC, the Supreme Court in Argentina has ruled that women who have an abortion after being raped will no longer be prosecuted. Under Argentine law…

Ottawa A proposal from a Conservative backbencher to legally define fetuses as human beings – and reopen the abortion debate – will have its day in the House of Commons. …so let’s have a debate:…and then they won’t want to have that debat…

Part of an earlier Doonesbury strip in abortion-related series A Doonesbury strip due to run next week that addresses the harsh realities of the Texas abortion law may be rejected by some U.S. newspapers. Others may opt to put it in the editorial page…