This morning, on the news one of the headline stories was about the CPC policy convention, where they are going to debate a range of policies, and two of them are outright eliminationist anti-transgender crap. (We’ll come back to that) One of the party talking heads said some inane drivel
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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – John Dearing, Gregory Cooper and Simon Willcock discuss the doom loop which is seeing worse-than-predicted effects of the climate breakdown resulting in vicious cycles of ecosystem collapse. J. Besl writes about new research showing that coastal flooding may be faster and more severe
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Strategies to defend abortion access: a review article by Matthew N. Lyons [ThreeWayFight]
[This article was originally posted on Three Way Fight: An Insurgent Blog on the Struggle Against the State and Fascism on July 19, 2022.] How do we assert reproductive autonomy when far rightists are on the offensive and liberals have failed to stop them? As we noted two months
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: The Tale of the Ten-Year-Old
The Tale of the Ten-year Old has now become a shameful part of American history for Republicans and for American media. Every conservative thought experiment about the pregnant 10 year old rape victim is more disturbing than the one before it. Maybe you guys should just admit that there’s no
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Forced Birth Brigade Do Not Like Complexity
I have nothing to add here except some formatting. Suzanne 22h • 17 tweets • 4 min read Pro-lifers don’t like complexity. At 17 weeks my placenta detached and he was much too small. I thought I felt my baby’s frantic attempts to breathe. My OBGYN advised me to terminate
Continue readingScripturient: Berman Flails Over Jurisdictions
Sure, most Canadians are appalled at the recent decisions by the Talibangelists on the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS), and the loss of rights and freedoms their overturning Roe v. Wade represents to women. But aside from never voting for Conservatives to avoid the same thing happening here, what can Canadians
Continue readingScripturient: The Talibangelists Are Winning
I imagine what I’m feeling now about the rise of the extremist, pseudo-Christian right (aka the Talibangelists, aka Christofascists) in the USA, Canada, and in other democracies is what my English father must have felt watching the events in Germany from 1934 on. He would have seen photographs and newsreels
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Abortion in the US – Tenuous Once Again
The forced birth brigade has won a major victory against women and their rights with the repeal of Roe vs Wade. Surprisingly much of the woke world has magically remembered what a woman is and how sex based oppression works in our society. Please also note identifying as a man
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Mary Ziegler and Scott Lemieux both warn of the many other rights in imminent danger due to both the fact of the elimination of abortion rights by the Republican-dominated U.S. Supreme Court, and the excuses made for it. – Dylan Scott discusses how the decision will lead
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Counter-Punch: Paul Street now a Far Right Reactionary TERF
Counterpunch is a alternative news site that I’ve followed for many years. I have often picked up on an essay that I found there and added my critique or opinion on the matter. Recently I critiqued a piece that was – ideologically speaking – over the top and I had
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Abortion – Another Avenue for the Control of Women
Abortion should be easily accessible and readily available to any woman who wants one. She gets to decide how her body and her body’s resources are being used at anytime as she, at least nominally in Western societies, is considered a human being with rights and bodily autonomy. Pregnancy is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Helen Lewis on Female Erasure – ACLU, Abortion and A Way Forward
Carefully look at the list. See the absence of one key demographic? The ACLU continues to be up its own arse whenever it has to deal with rights issues that effect half of the population. Helen Lewis writes in her article in The Atlantic of a solution grounded it pragmatic
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Roe vs. Wade, democracy, and minority rights
The American Supreme Court has certainly managed to catch the attention of the nation. The leaking of a draft of a ruling has people wondering whatever happened to Court security. Drafts are expected to be kept close to the vest until a final decision is made, for obvious reasons. So
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: On Abortion Law In Canada
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, this is just my personal exploration of the legal landscape in Canada and how it differs from that of the US. The decision in R v Morgentaler (1988) is considerably different from that of Roe v. Wade. Where Roe v. Wade places considerable importance on
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: More craziness from Texas
Many years ago, when I toiled in the oil patch, I lived in Houston, Texas for a couple of years. It was most enjoyable, especially the part about missing Canadian winters. And the city had the best eating I’ve every experienced: the confluence of three cuisines—seafood, barbecue and Mexican—all first
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: The Silence Is A Warning
This week, a draft ruling from the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) was leaked. Although what’s in the ruling itself is retrograde (and that’s being kind), that isn’t a surprise. Far too many of the judges appointed during Trump’s tenure, and the GOP’s refusal to allow Obama to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday #skvotes Links
A roundup of news from Saskatchewan’s provincial election as the last day of advance polling begins. – Crystal Palmer writes about her observations and experiences losing someone close to her to an utterly broken addictions and mental health system. And Gillian Massie highlights the how the Saskatchewan Party’s excuse for
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On private determinations
Paul Willcocks has previously pointed out why there’s reason for skepticism about Andrew Scheer’s attempt to play both sides as to whether or not the Cons will try to limit access to abortion. But it’s worth looking at a case study as to how the Harper Cons flouted any distinction
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Mia Rabson reports on a new Climate Action Network report card showing that Canada’s plans for greenhouse gas emissions are as bad as any in the G8, projecting to lead to the same 4 degree temperature increase which would result from from Donald
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