I just found out that until I was 12, not only was abortion illegal here in Canada (that I knew), but the penalty was LIFE IMPRISONMENT. That I did NOT know. So recently!!
Category: abortion
Mar 28
Men against Abortion
Is that why men are against abortion? Because women are, might be, killing men? Male fetuses? If the fetus was known to be female, they wouldn’t have a problem with it?
Feb 05
Rain without Thunder – HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Rain without Thunder (movie) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED I just watched this! And will watch it again, stopping to think at so many points! Here’s the brief description: It’s the year 2042 and the threat is real…women are going to prison for terminating their pregnancies. An investigating reporter is determined to reveal the truth behind the convictions. …
Aug 05
Permitting Abortion and Prohibiting Prenatal Harm
I think abortion should be allowed. And I think prenatal harm (especially that caused by ingesting various legal and illegal substances while pregnant) should not be allowed. Some accuse me of hypocrisy or, more accurately, maintaining a contradictory position: either women have the right to control what happens to their bodies or they don’t. No …
Jul 14
Making Kids with AIDS
[I wrote this piece a while ago, but have since then, seen the same sort of denial of male agency. Apparently kids are found in pumpkin patches. Yeah. Or the stork brings them. What are you, six?] [Quite apart from the point about AIDS.] What has been glaringly absent in news stories about children with …
Feb 21
Population Growth (i.e., rape)
I am amazed at the number of population growth analyses that don’t mention rape. So far I’ve read, let me see…none. And if they don’t even mention rape, they sure as hell can’t consider it a major causal factor. Do people really believe that millions of women want to be pregnant for five to ten …
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