Comments on: Our money, their choice

By: Eleanor

Eleanor — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:17:16 +0000

Heh, I hadn’t heard “womb-booger” before, and I’ve heard a lot of unsavory terms for a fetus. I guess when you’re justifying the unjustifiable, you have to paint it as something trivial. Dehumanizing “undesirables” is as old as the wind though, not very “progressive” at all.

By: John

John — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:37:09 +0000

Rebecca, your article today hit a nerve. Out here in BC we have been following the lead of Alberta in trying to raise the issue of de-funding abortion from the medical system. All logical arguments favour this happening. We need to remember two things in sound byte fashion. First "If its "your" choice why am "I" paying for it. Second, "Abortion costs society more than it benefits."

Well done and please keep poking that stick into the "feminest" movement.

By: Marauder

Marauder — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:25:04 +0000

On the topic of the term "womb boogers", it amazes me how some – not all, but some – pro-choice people can be so contemptuous towards babies and children. "Womb boogers," "crotch droppings" – at least when white people during the time of slavery spoke about black people in dehumaizing terms, they referred to them as animals, not inanimate human waste products.

By: Cynthia M.

Cynthia M. — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:35:25 +0000

Thank you Rebecca, for being such a rational voice in an increasingly irrational world!

It has always bothered me to my core that my taxpayer dollars fund an elective procedure that is neither moral, nor medically necessary. What part of “choice” is consistent with “necessary”?? (Where the mother’s life is in danger, terminations have always been legal and will rightly continue to be classified as medically necessary).

Removing public funding from abortions is not the be-all and end-all. But it would certainly lead to a decrease in the number of abortions. And as a first step in the battle against abortion, a decrease in their numbers would be great. Removing public funding would also go a long way towards not making the rest of us complicit in an act which we do not support!

You women at PWPL continue to lend loud and resonant voice to the issues and I want to thank you wholeheartedly! Great article Rebecca. And great work, ALL of you!

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:30:48 +0000

Reading the comments on that article, it's pretty evident that for a lot of people abortion is nothing more than an issue of property rights. How did we ever get to this point? And womb-boogers? UGH, I'm still cringing 10 minutes after reading that.