The Canadian budget document, #YourBudget2018, is easily one of the more patronizing government documents I’ve ever read. So I wrote this column about it in the National Post. Imagine with me for a second that the budget focused so much on men. Imagine that Budget 2018 referenced men 708 times instead of women. Men — […]
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“Trudeau can call abortion a right but that won’t make it true”
A slightly re-written version of the Convivium article by Faye Sonier and myself posted on Huffington Post. I’m grateful for their willingness to engage both sides of the Canada Summer Jobs debatedebacle. There are many hostile thoughts below the piece. Few of them constitute an actual argument, however. Very few engage the thinking in the […]
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One birth mother’s story
A now 28-year-old tells her story of getting pregnant at 18 and giving her son up for adoption.
Seeking healing after abortion?
Rachel’s Vineyard is having a retreat. Rachel’s Vineyard is a safe place to renew, rebuild and redeem hearts broken by abortion. Weekend retreats offer you a supportive, confidential and non-judgmental environment where women and men can express, release and reconcile painful post-abortive emotions to begin the process of restoration, renewal and healing. Rachel’s Vineyard […]
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Happy Women’s Day!
I talked today about women, women’s caregiving responsibilities and the budget with Danielle Smith on CHQR 770 in Calgary. Enjoy!
And they call this “feminist”
The Canadian budget document, #YourBudget2018, is easily one of the more patronizing government documents I’ve ever read. So I wrote this column about it in the National Post. Imagine with me for a second that the budget focused so much on men. Imagine that Budget 2018 referenced men 708 times instead of women. Men — […]
Successful social movements are inclusive
This article from late January by Michael Gerson gets at some important angles on the abortion debate that I had not thought about before. It is the antiabortion movement that appeals to inclusion. It argues for a more expansive definition of the human community. It opposes ending or exploiting one human life for the benefit […]
Helping pregnant women is verboten at Ryerson?
That appears to be the case on Ryerson Campus in Toronto, where posters offering support to pregnant students caused another… kerfuffle. The student union doesn’t know what to do now, because they are worried the pregnancy support might be “anti-choice.” Does the student union understand how extreme this sounds to outside ears? Do they not […]
About the new bubble zone and Canada Summer Jobs
Talked with Brian Lilley about the new bubble zone on CFRA last night. What our governments would like is for abortion to be wholeheartedly accepted and applauded. So when anyone stands up and says otherwise, they have to quash that sentiment. That’s what is happening with the new restrictions around abortion clinics and with the […]
“Spice of life”
The spice of life is cinnamon, by the way. Here’s a story in which I recount a fun Costco encounter, leading to a discussion of defending life in the womb. Published in Convivium.
“Trudeau can call abortion a right but that won’t make it true”
A slightly re-written version of the Convivium article by Faye Sonier and myself posted on Huffington Post. I’m grateful for their willingness to engage both sides of the Canada Summer Jobs debatedebacle. There are many hostile thoughts below the piece. Few of them constitute an actual argument, however. Very few engage the thinking in the […]
It’s wrong to call abortion a right
Faye Sonier and I explain why abortion is not a right. “Let that sink in for a moment. In Morgentaler, the Supreme Court stated that the Charter itself justifies the legislature limiting abortion access. This is a far cry from the claim that the Morgentaler decision established a right to abortion or that advocating for legislators to develop laws to […]
More than possible
Been saying versions of this for quite some time. In a Globe editorial. I remain emphatically convinced that abortion does not serve women’s rights.
A woman who moved from pro-choice to pro-life feminist
Frederica Mathewes-Green calls abortion violence and likens it to foot binding and the other ways in which we force women to conform in painful ways. Yet she is very kind and conciliatory to those who are pro-choice. You can watch her talk to a group of us yesterday on YouTube. Her story is fascinating. Today […]
“The last frontier of violence against women”
Interesting review of a book on surrogacy by feminist Dr. Renate Klein. From the book’s promo materials: Central to the project of cross-border surrogacy is the ideology that legalised commercial surrogacy is a legitimate means to provide infertile couples and gay men with children who share all or part of their genes. Women, without whose […]
New IKEA ad. Creative, yet annoying
A new ad has women doing a pregnancy test by peeing on an ad for an IKEA crib. If you’re pregnant the discount code for said crib shows up. What I like: When you are pregnant, however early, you need a crib because the baby, though you can’t see him or her, is already there. […]