Andrew Scheer has always tried to avoid saying anything that might reveal how he really feels about the abortion question, and the rights of women. And with good reason.For if Canadians knew how much of a hardline social conservative he is most of them would be appalled.But it's getting harder for Scheer
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Dead Wild Roses: Abortion, Still Legal In Canada.
Canada is doing marginally better than the US in terms of abortion law. The problem is gap between legality and accessibility. Following the letter but not the spirit of the law gives Canadian women the short end of the stick, as usual. It’s a legal medical procedure, and a government
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: “Unthinkable”
American religious conservatives have a problem. Riding high on their partnerships with the Trump administration and the perception of being political kingmakers, they need to be sure that they will be able to sustain their momentum for years to come. And with the newly-stacked U.S. Supreme Court making the overturn
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kurtis Alexander points out how climate change is exacerbating the gap between wealthy and poor countries. Megan Mayhew Bergman highlights the importance of discussing climate change even where it’s all too often treated as a taboo topic, while Jeff Sparrow points out
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday PSA: Abortion
Inspired by a recent conversation with a antediluvian blogger.
Continue readingdaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: UCP candidate’s ties to Trump campaign caps off sleepy by-elections in Fort McMurray-Conklin and Innisfail-Sylvan Lake
Photo: Sid Fayad, Laila Goodridge, Jane Stroud, Nicole Mooney, Abigail Douglass, Devin Dreeshen. Voters will head to the polls tomorrow to elect new MLAs in two relatively sleepy by-elections. The two districts, Fort McMurray-Conklin and Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, were both held by United Conservative Party MLAs before they became vacant and voters
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Frances Ryan rightly calls out the anti-choice right for having no interest in the well-being of children once they’re born: (S)mall-state ideology can make it devastatingly difficult for a low-income parent to look after a child. Look at the controversial “two-child” limit
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Your (RPOJ) WTF of the Day: Abortion Rights and Trans Rights are the Same Struggle
The piece is jam-packed with stupid, so we’ll just hit the highlights here and dissect the inanity RPOJ style. 🙂 “Let’s get the most obvious out of the way first: TERFs are about as feminist as Jim Davidson. They’re also very comfortable with forming political alliances with conservative men, and
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, expanding on this post as to how the promises which won Scott Moe the Saskatchewan Party’s leadership will leave him with some difficult decisions to make in a hurry. For further reading…– Tammy Robert’s coverage of the leadership campaign features this gem about Moe’s substance-free campaign: Moe’s campaign is
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is The Con Media Turning Against Andrew Scheer?
Yesterday, I wrote about a Globe article where Andrew Scheer claimed that him and his Cons were more tolerant than the Liberals.And I wondered whether Scheer was losing his mind, and why the Globe would print such nonsense. So I'm happy to see the Globe is now trying to make up
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Unpersonhood of Women to be Confirmed in Brazil – Full Abortion Ban Incoming
I hate the rank smell of religious zealotry, so self-righteous, so sure, so confident that the grand ooga-booga has ordained that the status of women in Brazil needs to be taken down a score of notches. As reported by the CBC: “A congressional committee led by evangelical Christians has
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Women’s Vote
Andrew Scheer's call for freedom of speech on all university campuses, or else, is still up on all Con websites. But it's looking a little tattered, and so is Scheer.After his clumsy attempt to use the case of that teaching assistant at Sir Wilfrid Laurier university, as yet another wedge issue with which
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Throne of Lies – The Anti Abortion Talking Points.
https://i-was-a-naive-prolifer.tumblr.com/post/114805709961/is-there-any-anti-abortion-talking-point-that Filed under: Culture, Feminism Tagged: Abortion, pro life mendacity
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer And His Inner Beast Revealed
The night Andrew Scheer was elected Con leader I remember thinking how little I knew about him, and wondering why the media had failed so miserably to let us know who he really was.I knew he was a professional politician, I knew he had been a lousy Speaker who always
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer’s Monstrous Shadow Cabinet
As you may have heard, Andrew Scheer has unveiled his shadow cabinet. And although I didn't expect much, since it was cobbled together from the ratty remains of the Harper regime. The ones who survived the great cleansing, the ones who are still going after the cheese. I have to admit
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Abortion Thoughts
Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Abortion, Blame, Republicans
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Let’s Just Say It: Women Matter more than Fetuses Do.
How did I mess Rebecca Traister’s powerful essay on Woman’s Rights? (make sure you go read the whole piece on The New Republic) “Public discussion of abortion has come to inexorably privilege fetal life over female life. The imaginary futures—the “personhoods”—of the unborn have taken moral precedence over
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Cell phone video of Nazi comparison in Red Deer Catholic high school class on abortion should raise political questions
PHOTOS: A screen shot of the video at the moment it makes its controversial comparison. Below: Alberta Education Minister David Eggen, Progressive Conservative Leader Jason Kenney as a young man giving his views on women’s reproductive rights, Red Deer Catholic Regional School Board Chair Guy Pelletier, and U of A
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