Good Friday needs a Passion Play like fetus fetishists need a crusader to promote their creed. Which is why the usual suspects have been quick to attack anyone who dares to challenge the tactics of Mary Talbot – and yes, I do mean the construct known as “Hailey”.
Many people who are victims of crime become passionate experiences. Many people personally touched by experiences become advocates. That’s not unique to Mary Talbot. Chantelle Diagle (sic) much to the pleasure of advocates of abortion, became “person of the year” in Chatelaine magazine after becoming the poster child for women in violent relationships who want to end a pregnancy against spousal wishes. Becky Bell’s parents in the USA had a teenage daughter that died from an illegal abortion (at a time when abortion was legal) and they went on to be feminist-endorsed advocates of the bill against parental notification. Evidently both of those families were seen to be appropriate advocates and spokespeople.
Is that not special?
What “Hailey” conveniently leaves out is that the individuals named were honest about their commitment to systemic changes, and were not manipulating public opinion to achieve something other than what they advanced as their personal struggle and pain. It has been pointed out many times, in many media, that Bill C-484 will not protect pregnant women from harm and violence, nor does it provide any additional punishment to their assailants if their pregnancy is terminated by the physical attack (especially if somehow the woman provoked it – a strange proviso also found in that bill). Yet Mary Talbot and the zygote zealots somehow manage to spin any open criticism of C-484 into an attack on her and her Passion Play.
And what a dramatic crusade it has been. Perhaps if she stepped back and considered how she has been behaving since the murder of her daughter, she might well notice how this whole campaign to pass Bill C-484 has become focused on her own personal vendetta. There are hundreds of pregnant women who have been murdered in the last decade; their parents, their sibling, their children mourn their unwarranted deaths to this day. Mary Talbot certainly deserves the same amount of consideration for her grief as they do.
But at some point, Talbot should no longer get a free pass for behaving inappropriately and manipulating other people, to prove to the world that she’s a good mother. I can and I will hold her responsible for her public antics. If she wants to provide a coffin photo of Olivia and her fetus, I can challenge her action and wonder if it’s all about the crime, why not propagate pictures of her daughter’s stabbed, mutilated body then? Unless Talbot’s publicity acumen is savvy enough to realize that glurge plays better than gore.
As a footnote to Chantale Daigle and her Supreme Court of Canada appeal, her ex-partner’s continued notoriety as an abuser of women was a happenstance educational tool. Hopefully, many women – pregnant or not – recognized in their intimate or domestic partner some of the violent and controlling behaviour that Jean-Guy Tremblay publicly displayed and removed themselves from an abusive relationship.
Hello, dollinks, it is BLANCHE, she who is so wunnaful she signs her names in capitals.
What is all this bumph about how we all absolutely have got to respect Mary Talbot?
Sez who? I might feel many things about the murder of this woman’s pregnant daughter. I might feel compassion, I might feel pity, I might feel empathy. None of which means I am going to respect someone who is allowing herself to be used by those who cannot see that the very Bill they claim is so wonderful actually detracts from the protections available to women, particularly pregnant women.
Respect someone who is being used by those who would deny freedom of choice to my grand daughters? In a pigs’ arse I’ll respect someone who would dare interfere in their choices!
For crying in the night the woman has published photo’s of her daughter and the unborn fetus. Now what kind of frikken respect got demonstrated there? It is the ultimate violation of privacy.
You want me to respect someone who would do that?
Ah, gimme a frikken break!
Perhaps the woman is having a melt down in public. I don’t castigate her for that. I don’t even blame her for being so upset she doesn’t realize she is being used. I reserve my scorn for the sick bastards who are exploiting this woman’s grief.
Despicable.
Should any of mine want an abortion and make the necessary arrangements for one, I want to ask all the compulsory pregnancy batshits to please not attempt to in any way harrass or restrain them. Because they will be accompanied by someone who is not a pacifist, and if you want to see batshit just see what happens if you threaten my babes. Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither has it entered into your raisin sized hearts what BLANCHE would have in store for you.
And I will choose where and to whom I give my respect, thank you.
Gahhhh! Could we get any more pink?
Seriously, this is too hard on the eyes.
My first instinct is to say what the hell? you go on everyone’s blog and complain about the decor?
But whatever. That work for you now?
I liked the pink. We at Birth Pangs ARE pink.
Another crucial difference with both examples “Hailey” mentions, is that in both cases, the pro-choice advocates were necessarily REACTING IN DEFENCE against an existing law or court decision that had ALREADY violated a woman’s rights. In the case of Bill C-484, it is a pro-active and unecessary initiative by anti-choicers to create new law making fetuses persons and restricting women’s rights.