Why yes, I will have a splash of wine with dinner ….

or a micro-brewed beer from the local ale crafters, said the pregnant woman.
All of you busybodies out there, you can choke back your ill-advised counsel to her. According to this recent study, the occasional glass of wine or pint of beer will not damage her fetus.
The University College London team asked mothers about how [...]

Standing on the corner of Choice and No-Choice

Thanks to Alison of Creekside for bringing this to our attention.

Réveillez-vous!

We don’t want to go back in time: Against Bill C-484 For free and accessible abortion For the access to contraception To continue the battle against violence towards women For women freedom to choose The choice belongs to women and nobody else! PROTEST Sunday June 1st Park Lahaie, Métro Laurier Corner St-Joseph and St-Laurent [...]

Shhhhhh

OK, we admit it. Sometimes we at Birth Pangs make shit up. But we didn’t make this up.
Back in March we started calling Bill C-484 The Kicking Abortion’s Ass Bill after a prominent fetus fetishist called it that on his blog.
So, despite the fact that an anonymous commenter there helpfully pointed out that the post [...]

Why bother asking when you “know” the RIGHT answer.

“What if your mother had aborted you?” is a sham question that fetus fetishists wave on their placards and scream in the faces of Pro-Choice supporters. Recently Frances Kissling gave a thoughtful and complex answer to that rhetorical query:
As a fetus I would have gladly given up my chance to enter the world and become [...]