Comments on: CALL OUT! Blog Against a Sneak Attack on Women’s Rights

By: fern hill

fern hill — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:51:34 +0000

Hiya, Blast Furnace. Scott Tribe drew our attention to your post here. It's good that rational people can agree that a bad law is a bad law no matter what their positions on other matters may be.

By: BlastFurnace

BlastFurnace — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:32:17 +0000

I’m also in, and I posted at my blog today about this. I stand by my belief that abortion is morally wrong, but I am even more opposed to back-handed tactics like those of Ken Epps. If one wants to present a bill restricting abortion, then one should clearly do that. Weasel words such as those in C-484 won’t fly.

By: Chimera

Chimera — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:00:00 +0000

Ooh! Called into action! I’m all goose pimply, I am!

Seriously, I’m honored to have been remembered. I don’t comment here often (although I’ve racked up a few frequent reader points), so I wouldn’t have been surprised to have been overlooked.

I’ll make some time soon and do a post on this. I’d really like to say something in a way that doesn’t make me sound like a mere echo chamber (although being an echo for the kind of talent that gets pubbed here would be an honor, as well).

The Petition: I synd it!

By: BLANCHE DU BOIS

BLANCHE DU BOIS — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:30:07 +0000

I can understand why Manjit Pangani’s sister would want this kind of legislation. Manjit was pregnant with a baby she wanted to have and raise and was murdered, her killer than tried to burn her body. I can understand the grief, horror, and rage a sister would feel. I think I would probably feel much the same way. And I cannot think of one single way we could ensure Choice for all women and still punish those who take the life of a pregnant sister beyond the present law against foul murder. I can understand the entire family wanted that baby. And when Majit was killed , so was her wanted child.

And I’m all for locking up those responsible and keeping them locked up until six days after Rapture.

But not at the expense of Choice. I would suggest to Manjit’s family that a more fitting memorial to their loved one would be to agitate and work to support Choice. because Manjit did not choose to be slaughtered. She had no Choice in her death.

Too many women have died , too many others will die if Choice is whittled away. Amazing how there is always munny for yet another very expensive space programme experiment and nobody has yet come up with a birth control pill for men. The burden of contraception is still on women. And that is wrong.

By: auntie skdadl

auntie skdadl — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:53:51 +0000

Good fellow, that Scott. Capital young chap. Tally-ho.

And eat your vegetables, Scott.

By: fern hill

fern hill — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:05:39 +0000

Great! We at Birth Pangs look forward to it.

Srsly, Scott, thanks.

ETA: You edited after I commented. Yeah, you’re a member. You didn’t get booted.

As for persona non grata. . . We have great hopes for you. We just have to work on you some more.

By: Scott Tribe

Scott Tribe — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:54:10 +0000

I’m considered a member of Bread and Roses? I figured with the uh.. controversy the past month or so (over issues I don’t intend to delve into again) that I’ve had with some of the B’n'R membership (including some of you who I am talking with right now) I’d be more likely to be persona non grata over there, then considered a member.

Your date for blogging against this bill is Feb 25. You will see a blogging post about this opposing this bill at my site on or before Feb 25. Perhaps a day or 2 before, to give it better exposure, particularly to the Liblogs aggregate crowd.

By: fern hill

fern hill — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:27:25 +0000

Well, Scott, you’re a member of Bread and Roses and you blog. So I included you when calling out blogging BnR members. And it wasn’t sarcastic. It was merely, um, prodding.

As deBeauxOs more politely puts it — if you are opposed to this sort of bill and this bill in particular, why not blog about it and open a discussion among your Liberal colleagues as to whether women’s rights are a matter of individual conscience?

By: Gigi

Gigi — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:20:44 +0000

You mean Jason “let me tell you how real feminists behave” Cherniak?

Yeah, uh. He’s right at the top of the list

By: Scott Tribe

Scott Tribe — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:34:06 +0000

Fern: You’re asking a lowly only recently new Liberal Party member and an even lowlier Liberal blogger to speculate the reasons why. I can only hypothesize since I don’t get fed official Liberal Party policy that it’s felt to be an issue of conscience; ie. such as what would happen if the Death Penalty ever came up again in Parliament.

BTW, thanks for the uh, membership here, sarcastic or not. I’m honoured to be put on here even in sarcasm ahead of such Liberal blogging luminaries as Jason Cherniak.