‘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 effigy [...]
Conscience
November 10, 2007 3 Comments
We at Birth Pangs have been wrestling with ‘conscience’. Not ours. Ours are fine, thank you. (Er, except for that evening a few weeks ago, when one of us had a tad too much to drink and took her father-in-law to task for the unequal distribution of wealth in Canada, and well, pretty much the [...]
Misogyny and State Murder
October 21, 2007 6 Comments
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 1 Comment
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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