‘Two-thirds of Canadian women don’t support current abortion policy.’ That’s the conclusion of an Environics poll commissioned by the fetus fetishizers at Life Canada. Well, we at Birth Pangs commissioned a poll of our own. We asked the esteemed polling firm Upay-Wespin to ask Canadians ‘When was the last time you made and burned an [...]
Conscience
November 10, 2007 By
Misogyny and State Murder
October 21, 2007 By
Human Rights Watch recently issued a report called ’Over Their Dead Bodies’, detailing the impact of the absolute ban on abortion in Nicaragua. That’s correct — an absolute ban. Not even to save a woman’s life. Not surprisingly, Human Rights Watch reports that at least 80 pregnant women have died since the ban went into [...]
The crime of abortion, Part 2
August 22, 2007 By
Sherry F. Colb is a terrific USian writer on law and women’s issues at Findlaw. In previous articles, she explored the legal aspects of two exceptions in criminalizing abortion: exceptions in the cases of rape or incest. (She finds them both problematic to say the least.) In today’s column, she tackles the question of exempting [...]
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