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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Eight myths of choice
Does abortion support women’s rights or detract from them? Here, I put forward some questions and reasons why access to abortion detracts from women’s rights. Please forward to your friends who are pro-choice and feel free to tell me whether any of these arguments resonate. Those of us who are against abortion understand that abortion […]
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“Spice of life”
The spice of life is cinnamon, by the way. Here’s a story in which I recount a fun Costco encounter. 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. […]

Cool video for Rio 2016
Somehow I missed this, but obviously I like it. Who wouldn’t?

Ideological purity test to receive funding for interns
Discussed the government’s requirement of an ideological purity test (I support “reproductive rights”) in order for small business and not-for-profits to receive funding for summer interns with John Oakley on AM 640 yesterday. Very pleased he took the issue on. Less pleased with my meandering replies here but the gist is this: The Charter is […]

Lobbyists pushing for commercialization of assisted reproduction
There’s a lobbying push on right now to repeal the criminal sanctions of our already stripped down Assisted Human Reproduction Act. Years ago, Canada was declared as having the gold standard of legislation on reproductive technologies. Our Act was stripped down in 2010 with the Reference to the Assisted Human Reproduction Act at the Supreme Court. […]

On Trent Franks resignation and surrogacy
This article explains why Congressman Trent Franks’ resignation makes sense. I had only heard little pieces of information about this case, but this article tells more of the story: Solicitation for surrogacy offends the dignity of the female person just as much as solicitation for sex. Indeed, solicitation for surrogacy derives from solicitation for sex […]

NYT: Causal link between the Pill and breast cancer
Read about this, in the New York Times. I’m fascinated by this statement: While a link had been established between birth control pills and breast cancer years ago, this study is the first to examine the risks associated with current formulations of birth control pills and devices in a large population. They say this link […]

CBC and abortion
CBC is taking a look at abortion. Today, as I type, they are listening to men’s experience with abortion. I can’t help but think this is a good thing because the stories are definitely conflicted and you can’t avoid that, unless they were to censor almost every story. One fellow just now, in Windsor: There […]

Eight myths of choice
Does abortion support women’s rights or detract from them? Here, I put forward some questions and reasons why access to abortion detracts from women’s rights. Please forward to your friends who are pro-choice and feel free to tell me whether any of these arguments resonate. Those of us who are against abortion understand that abortion […]

Men and abortion
Was reminded of this poignant song this morning. This is where abortion decisions live–in our hearts, years after the fact, when we have other children, or when we don’t, and we wonder what the lives of our aborted children would be like. So many people carry this burden in the quiet of their hearts. They […]