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Thanks Dammit Janet for bringing it up.
Bitter political rivals: Separatists v Federalists; scandals, and constant disagreements over language issues, but what warmed my heart today was every MNA got together and in a vote of 109- 0, adopted a pro-choice motion. Imagine that in Catholic Quebec; home of Cardinal Ouellette with foot in mouth.
“That [Quebec's] National Assembly reaffirms the right of women to free choice and to free and accessible abortion services, and asks the federal government and the prime minister of Canada to put an end to the current ambiguity on this issue, and that the National Assembly reaffirms that the fact of supporting women’s right to an abortion should not in any case be used by the federal government to cut funding to a women’s group.”
The goal, of course, is to submit this motion to the House of Commons and the Senate.
Heart warming indeed. How’s about the other provinces now?
Let’s make sure Steve can’t hide behind MPs who ‘acted on their own’ when producing private members’ bills. Betcha Steve in private tells them to draft these bills, leak ‘em to the media and see how Canadians react.
Oh and Mindy Jacobs of Sun Media: well said! She must be one of the black sheep amongst her colleagues.
“Pro-life? Get over it!”
Read her article. It debunks a few myths regarding our abortion law “vaccuum”.
She brought up one argument I concurr with and it should be a concern to all. Children’s services and social service agencies which services families and children across Canada have full case loads, taking care of these neglected, abused and/or unwanted children; no, many of them don’t get adopted in nice happy homes with loving families.
Right leaning governments slash budgets and social services does take a beating.
So fetus fetishists, if abortion were to be recriminalized and/or inaccessible ( costly out of pocket), imagine how many more of these kids would find themselves at the mercy of under budgeted, understaffed agencies and resources for them. So, how do you propose we help these children? As someone who works for social services and the daughter of a former social worker, I can tell you that it’s a huge problem that can’t be ignored and needs solutions.
Yikes!
So today, our side scored a few good jabs. Brother Steve, your turn to play ball now.
I think that those who want to force women to carry to term should be forced to adopt the unwanted kids–especially the older ones who are hard to place. Oh sure there’s a demand for babies–perfect newborn white ones with no known infirmities. For all the rest, there’s crickets and a deafening silence from the “pro-life” crowd…
…and they don’t want to let Teh Gheyz adopt those kids, either.
ck Reply:
May 19th, 2010 at 9:53 PM
Actually, Bina, our agency does allow gays to adopt kids. They have to pass the same battery of criteria as everyone else, as well they should, but yeah, if they’re good candidates, our agency’s social workers say, why not?