Women! Settle down sooner! As someone who received this advice often enough, it’s worth mentioning why it’s unhelpful. Women certainly are not exempt from making wise relationship and life decisions, but there’s no point in gearing this advice exclusively to women when men need it too–along with just about every aspect of our culture. In […]
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Feminists must ‘reconcile with their roots’, pro-life mission
An article about a recent talk I did for the deVeber Institute about the interplay between being pro-life and the feminist movement. The original feminist movement, the abolitionists seeking an end to slavery and then the suffragettes of the late 19th and early 20th century, were actually more pro-women and would have more in common […]
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Eugenics, Margaret Sanger, and the sordid history of the pro-abortion movement
I am back again with another article about—you guessed it—the unendingly problematic book Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power & A World Without Rape. This time, I bring you a criticism from Tiloma Jayasinghe’s essay “When Pregnancy is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will be Pregnant.” The essay is really more about pregnancy than it […]
Settle down or ‘lean in’?
Women! Settle down sooner! As someone who received this advice often enough, it’s worth mentioning why it’s unhelpful. Women certainly are not exempt from making wise relationship and life decisions, but there’s no point in gearing this advice exclusively to women when men need it too–along with just about every aspect of our culture. In […]
Feminists must ‘reconcile with their roots’, pro-life mission
An article about a recent talk I did for the deVeber Institute about the interplay between being pro-life and the feminist movement. The original feminist movement, the abolitionists seeking an end to slavery and then the suffragettes of the late 19th and early 20th century, were actually more pro-women and would have more in common […]
Kavanaugh is all about Roe v. Wade
This is a great little video clip about Lila Rose, done by The Atlantic, one of my favourite magazines. I enjoyed the clip–it says why you can be a feminist pro-lifer. But I’m posting it here primarily because it also does something else. In the thorny, divisive terrain of the hearings over Supreme Court nominee […]
Why I get teary when I see people with Down Syndrome
Because of moments like this, where a doctor advises a mother, five months pregnant with her wanted child, to abort because there is a diagnosis of Down Syndrome. Why would the doctor do that? For every person with Down Syndrome you see, there are eight or nine more who didn’t make it. Most recently I […]
The danger of a single “anti-choice” story
“Show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.” – Chimimanda Nzogi Adichie Recently, thanks to a video that was circulated around on Facebook, I was re-introduced to the work of Chimimanda Nzogi Adichie, a renowned Nigerian author and feminist. I had first studied her […]
Men, women and abortion
Jonathon Van Maren drew my attention to this letter seeking advice about whether a woman can ethically keep a child her boyfriend doesn’t want in the New York Times. He comes down hard on selfish and stupid men, which may very often be the case. However, we as women have taught men this is a legitimate […]
How a little baby can teach us
Lucy-Rose Kmiec only lived for 39 days, but in it she changed the lives of those around her. A beautiful article about her and her family. The day that she died, Max was the one taking care of her and Jolie was using the tube feed. Two months ago, I wouldn’t have trusted them with […]
Gosnell movie coming this fall
Some years ago, we helped raise funds for the Gosnell movie, by promoting their fundraising campaign here on PWPL. It’s now finished and coming soon to a theatre near you this October. Looks like they did a good job. Remember to support it in theatres!
Feminism, rape culture, and the pro-life movement
In my previous post, I mentioned that I had recently finished reading Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power & A World Without Rape. Well, I am back to discuss another one of the incredibly problematic accusations that was made in this book. And yes, we are going to be focusing once again on Jill Filipovic’s […]
Canada: Why did 766 late term, livebirth abortions happen?
Good question. Pat Maloney provides the numbers. According to CIHI, There were 766 late-term livebirth abortions in a five year period from 2013/2014 to 2017/2018. These numbers are even higher since they exclude Quebec.
Hypocrite vegans
The woman who recently harassed pro-life activists in Toronto owns and runs, wait for it, a vegan pizza shop. Vegan. No eggs, no milk, no animal products. When a group of anti-abortion protesters brandishing graphic posters gathered outside Jennifer Bundock’s vegan pizza shop, she knew what she had to do. In an expletive-laden video that has been […]
The special rights of abortion providers
I recently finished reading the book Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power & A World Without Rape. It is a collection of short essays written by more than 25 different feminists about rape culture. Being a self-identified pro-life feminist myself, there were many arguments that I agreed with wholeheartedly. However, there were also many, […]
Who knew?
I don’t know anything about this Roe v. Wade movie (save for what the linked article tells me, which seems to be very biased even as it claims the movie will be very biased, but I digress). But I had no idea there was a “who’s-who of conservative Hollywood.” Where have they been hiding? The […]
What the California crisis pregnancy centre court decision really means
I have noticed that there is a lot of misinformation being spread about the NIFLA v Becerra decision that was recently released by the US Supreme Court. (Case in point, this statement.) So let’s set the record straight: The impetus for the NIFLA v Becerra case was a 2015 law passed in California. Colloquially referred […]