C-484: Call-out to organizations

A message from Joyce Arthur of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada: To Organizations: Please sign an open statement opposing Bill C-484, the “Unborn Victims of Crime Act”. Aux organisations : Veuillez signer avec nous une déclaration collective d’opposition au projet de loi C-484, Loi sur les enfants non encore nés victimes d’actes criminels English [...]

C-484: Hear that dog-whistle?

The Notional Pest has finally published — but just online — Joyce Arthur’s answer to the lying claptrap article by Canada’s NUMBER ONE BLOGGING FETUS FETISHIST. Suzanne Fortin engages in a distortion of facts in her article “Canadian women need a fetal homicide law” (March 10). . . . Ms. Fortin repeats the word “fetus” [...]

‘Fetal Rights’ by the Back Door? You Betcha!

Just the other day, we were snarking at our USian cousins for their attempts to have a fertilized human egg legally recognized as a person. But, as we try to often forget, we got them here too. Now, there’s yet another private member’s bill that aims to make a fetus an ‘unborn’ victim of crime. [...]