January 27, 2012
As feminists, we get it ingrained in us that choice is every person’s (read: woman’s) right. But what if things weren’t as simple as that? Choice is a common rhetoric used by many feminists and social justice activists. The topic ranges from jobs to abortion; sexuality and contraception to marriage; how we look to what ...
Tags: abortion,
arranged marriage,
choice,
fallacy of choice,
feminism,
First World feminism,
poverty,
premarital sex,
pro-choice,
race,
teenage pregnancy,
women's rights
January 25, 2012
Rick Santorum, I feel sorry for any daughter of yours! Santorum, a candidate to become the Republican nominee for the presidential race late this year, says that if his daughter conceived a baby through rape he would counsel her against an abortion calling the baby a “gift from God.” If any woman became pregnant following rape ...
January 24, 2012
Sure, the UK may have the Queen as the head of state, a woman whose job description also includes Defender of the Faith. The faith in question is the Church of England but despite this, I think the UK does a pretty good job of separating church and state. Indeed, our Deputy Prime Minister may ...
Tags: abortion,
abortion counselling,
abortion law,
bpas,
British Pregnancy Advisory Service,
Marie Stopes,
Nadine Dorries,
pregnancy options,
pro life,
pro-choice,
UK
January 22, 2012
Today is the 39th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the court case that made abortion legal in the USA. In honour of this day we are posting a video that explains some of the facts about who really gets abortions (not teenagers) and why (poverty and already having too many children to look after), in ...
Tags: abortion,
abortion access,
abortion clinic,
abortion facts,
lazy sunday post,
motherhood,
Planned Parenthood,
pregnant,
pro life,
pro-choice,
Roe vs. Wade,
who really has abortions?,
women's health
January 16, 2012
Doctors are being told to conceal the sex of the fetus from pregnant women in case they are from cultures who practice female infanticide. An editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal says that many Asian women in Canada come from cultures where they prefer baby boys, and if these women know the sex of ...
January 5, 2012
A Conservative MP backed by the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada would like to take a closer look at the contents of your womb. Not to be outdone by the increasingly surreal abortion debate imposed on our neighbours to the south, Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth is having a good think about tabling a private member’s bill ...
Tags: abortion,
abortion law,
Canada,
conservatives,
definition of human,
Evangelical Fellowship of Canada,
fetus,
Françoise Boivin,
law,
pro life,
pro-choice,
rights of the fetus,
Stephen Woodworth,
when fetus becomes human
January 3, 2012
In Maryland, two doctors are now facing murder charges after allegedly providing late-term abortions to five patients. During the 16-month investigation, authorities found that Steven Brigham and Nicola Riley initiated abortions in a New Jersey clinic (owned by Brigham) by giving pregnant women preliminary injections, and they then finished the procedures in Maryland. Women should ...
Tags: abortion,
abortion law,
criminal,
criminal court,
doctors,
fetus,
late-term abortion,
law,
licence,
Maryland,
murder,
New Jersey,
Nicola Riley,
personhood,
pro life,
pro-choice,
state law,
Steven Brighaman,
viability,
viable fetus,
women's rights
December 15, 2011
Women have had the right to get abortions in Canada since the 1960s. Despite this, some people think that this is wrong and they want to make their voices heard. One such woman is Linda Gibbons. This 63-year-old hangs around abortion clinics trying to intimidate women. She believes she has a God-given right to try ...
December 9, 2011
When President Barack Obama took office, he promised to restore “scientific integrity” to policy making. He also made promises to women about supporting their health issues. He failed on both accounts this week when he did not fight the decision of US Health and Human Services Secretary that blocked Plan B from being available over ...
Tags: abortion,
American conservatives,
Barack Obama,
emergency conraception,
emergency contraception over-the-counter,
FDA,
morals,
morning after pill,
Plan B,
politics,
purity,
science,
teen pregnancy,
women's health
December 6, 2011
“Jingle pills!” was the headline that woke me out of my stupor after a 10-hour overnight flight from the other end of the world. “Good grief, what’s this,” I thought to myself as I picked up the paper and jumped on a train home. Turns out that Life, a rather unimaginatively named British pro-life group, ...
Tags: abortion,
anti-choice,
bpas,
British Pregnancy Advisory Service,
casual sex,
condoms,
emergency contraception,
free contraception,
free emergency contraception,
mail-order pills,
nurse consultation,
order pills online,
pills in mail,
pro life,
pro-choice,
slut shaming,
UK,
unprotected sex