Reality is often more bizarre than fiction. If four years ago, a satirist had written a novel about the travails of a US right-wing political party and a turbulent election campaign that featured a political ‘marriage of convenience’ between an ersatz war hero and a ditzy moose-hunting governor, critics might have found it over the [...]
Death by Childbirth
October 23, 2008 By
Northern Ireland is struggling towards ensuring that women have choice with respect to their reproductive potential. However it does have something to offer pregnant women that is enviable and admirable. According to the United Nations, a woman’s chance of dying in childbirth in the United States is 1 in 4,800. In Ireland, which has the [...]
BP Will Eat Crow
October 2, 2008 By
OK. We at Birth Pangs have said some shirty things about the Catlick Church. But we’re willing to eat crow if this pans out. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s disturbing statements to the media that he will undemocratically not permit anyone to reopen the debate on abortion are a stark betrayal of conservative principles and should [...]
Bring Chris Reid Back!
September 22, 2008 By
In another coup for the blogosphere, a Conservative candidate who was outed as a right-wing. gun-totin’, fetish fetishizing nutbar by Big City Lib has withdrawn from the campaign. But that’s not the end of the story. Blob Blogging Wingnut and her unsavory pals want him back. Chris Reid is pro-life.Proudly pro-life. I’ve seen him publicly [...]
Choice and the Election
September 16, 2008 By
Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada has swiped borrowed a list of anti-choice MPs from Campaign Life Coalition. Courtesy of a survey of MPs by Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), the ranks of known anti-choice MP’s in the current Parliament have just swelled. In 2006, we estimated that 32% of all MPs were anti-choice based on their [...]
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