Welcome, Judith Timson! Welcome to my world. For years and years the government has funded abortions, supplied abortions, paid for them (since I started paying taxes) with my money. It wasn’t done in my name. And frankly, I don’t love the blood on my hands. In fact, this group was started so that women like you wouldn’t be the only ones to stand up at the time of the Morgentaler anniversary, to make a claim of “victory for women’s rights” as if you spoke for women everywhere. See, here’s the problem. You and your friends have been purportedly “representing” me in politics and the public square for quite some time. But you never did. It was frustrating, yes. So when you write this:
Here is a political question that for me, just won’t go away: In exactly whose name has the Harper government decided to withhold funds for access to safe abortion in their international maternal and child health initiative? Not in my name. And not in the names of countless Canadians who have relied for years on safe access to the procedure at government expense.
…I say, how do you like them apples?
Certainly, I’m glad you have a column, Judith, and can express yourself. You’re welcome to that. The point of this post is simply to highlight that for my entire life a pro-abortion status quo has been forced on me, pushing me to agree to some sort of “women’s right” that doesn’t exist.
Not in my name. Not in my name.
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Brigitte adds: Not in my name.
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Tanya adds: No, not in my name, either.
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Polls, polls, polls. All show that Canadians are pro-choice.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/abopollca.htm
http://www.lifenews.com/int803.html
http://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2010/04/canadians-decisively-pro-choice-on-abortion-april-1-2010/
Hey, Andrea — I’m curious. Check your stats. Do any of your commenters click on outside links? Or is this the echo chamber that it appears to be?
And now I’ve got a message that my comment seems ‘spammy’. Too many links? Let’s see.
Fern: Yes, too many links. The system flags after two.
That’s interesting. Four links were ‘spammy’. Three links and my comment has been sent to the editor and may or may not be published.
I’d hate to lose the point here which was that the Judith Timsons of the world are funny when they wake up one day and think “wait a second, that doesn’t represent me!” and become all indignant.
Almost every time I speak in a public place I make the point that I do not speak for every woman. Rather that I speak for those who agree. And of course, I speak with some hopes of bringing others alongside, as I was brought alongside by some other charming and intelligent pro-lifers…
This post is not about “minority/majority” or “morality/immorality” or even “right/wrong”.
It’s about asking a simple question: Could those who religiously believe abortion is a woman’s right stop saying they speak on behalf of all women? Because they don’t.
The Not in My Name Campaign. Catchy.
I am a Canadian citizen living in Hong Kong. Unfortunately I am still paying taxes in Canada and funding abortions. My main beef about this is that there are loose living guys who are abusing women. They have sex with women and promise them … but when the woman gets pregnant, they simply dump her for another. I don’t think that this is fair to anyone, nor should Canadian taxpayers have to be involved with terminating the lives of innocent human beings and enabling men to use women sexually one after another for as many women as they can con. I wish that we could stop this.
Not in my name.
I’m late coming to this, but the pro-choicers definitely do not speak for me!
Definitely not in my name.
Not in my name, either!
Not in my name either. By forcing Canadians to fund abortion, the government forces us to go against our very nature, everything we believe in, all that makes life good, beautiful and worth living. The horror of this coercion cannot be exaggerated.
Not in my name,either
Not in my name! I’ll be at the March for Life next week. D.V.
Not in my name. I don’t think that having a baby ( which required a previous personnal choice of having sex ) is like having a tumor which will need a medical intervention. Our taxes should support Health Care for all canadians. Let people who support abortion fund it out of their own pocket like any other non profit charity.
Not in my name.
Not in my nor my husband’s name either.
Not in my name, either.
Not in my name.
However, I am not rooting for our Professional Feminists to wake up to the reality that they don’t speak in anyone’s name but their own, because it’s their arrogance that will be their undoing.
The more foolish and unreasonable they become in their attempts to silence all dissent, while simultaneously trumpeting that no dissent exists, the more they will be seen for what they are – self-loathing ideologues completely out of touch with reality.
Take our disingenuous friend Fern – still using that wildly successful newspeak term “pro-choice” in an attempt to lay claim to the country. Sure, when asked to describe themselves using undefined terms, a slim majority choose to say they are “pro-choice” – at least slightly. Of course, 92% of Canadians don’t even know what the “pro-choice” code word really means – that abortion MUST be permitted at any time from conception up to the moment of birth (thanks for the links, babe).
That’s why they work so hard to silence anyone who dares to disagree with them in the slightest, why they are so driven to cultivate the appearance that they speak for all women. If Canadians were actually allowed to have a national conversation about abortion, the truth might accidentally come out.
So I say let them throw their little tantrums when anyone dares publicly question the status quo – it creates an opportunity for a little bit more of that conversation to happen, and a little more of that truth to shine through.
“it’s their arrogance that will be their undoing”–BINGO. Agreed. Thanks, Marie.
Not in my name either and I agree with Marie. Most Canadians are horrified with the number of killings on their soil in the name of “freedom for women”
Murder is not freedom and women have been conned by the package they have been sold called freedom..what a lie it is
When these feminists wake up..they will weep
A real feminist believes in life, not death.
A real feminist believes in the power of her own womb and for her sisters womb
4 in my house and NOT IN OUR NAME EITHER!
NOT IN MY NAME EITHER AND MY WIFE AGREES WITH ME THIS TIME
Not in my name!!
A “Not in My Name” campaign would be great Andrea. Sounds like a perfect slogan. I do like the irony of the pro-choice woman who suddenly finds herself in our position. Ha ha.
I’m educated, and still, NOT IN MY NAME. My father has a doctor’s degree, my brother is working on his. NOT IN THEIR NAMES EITHER. My family physician (obviously educated) is PRO-LIFE. NOT IN HIS NAME EITHER.
Thanks to EDUCATION I know that foetuses suffer HORRIBLE pain during an abortion. Thanks to mothers who have suffered abortions, I know that they felt their babies moving in their womb, trying to escape. These women, who thought they had no other choice, have to deal with this for the rest of their lives. NOT IN MY NAME.
Not in my name either – not for ANYONe in my household of 7.
not in my name either
Not in my name. Not for my husband either.
Not in my name.
Not in my name.
Our government has forced me to be a party to killing our precious unborn Canadian babies. Must we all stop paying taxes to make the point that we abhor this holocaust?
Not in my name…
50 years ago, when the now widely discredited “recapitulation theory” of human embryonic development was pervasive in our education and media institutions, one could understand why the public could be duped into accepting abortion as a reasonable choice.
But not any more. Not with the knowledge we have today. Not with ultra-sound, laser technology and modern science. Today we know what and who the fetus is. It is NOT an appendage of the woman. It is NOT an inferior life form evolving into a human being. It is, in every sense — human life. And it is innocent of any crime. To casually kill any innocent human life is an unspeakable crime. For years I and my entire family have STRONGLY resented having to pay for this senseless and barbaric killing through our tax dollars. It is a travesty of justice and an imposition of tyranny!!!
DEFINITELY NOT IN MY NAME!
Not in my name either…
Definitely NOT in MY name either!!
Definately not in my name!!
Not in MY NAME EITHER!
Not in my name.
Not in my name either!
Not in my name anymore!!
not in our names either
Most definately NOT in our names or our 3 sons & 4 grandsons.
Fern, one day you will have to answer to a higher power for your pro abortion views. Good luck.!!!
Definitely not in my name!
Certainly not in my name!
Everyone,
Judith Timson will be on a Globe and Mail discussion that is happening right now (11 am MST on May 5th):
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/should-pms-critics-shut-up-about-maternal-health/article1557698/
Not in our name nor our six children and seventeen grandchildren
Not in my name!!
Not in my name either! While I can sympathize with feeling overwhelmed by a pregnancy, killing the baby is never a solution. Abortion has changed the face and morals of our nation. A society is only as resilient as its treatment of its most vulnerable members – and who is more vulnerable than a child in the womb. For a woman to kill her own flesh and blood goes against the very core of her being, as women who have had abortions will attest.
Feminism, in all its rabid forms has destroyed the family. I am not talking about equal pay for equal work here, but the attitude that women can have it all at the same time and others must not only accommodate that, but also pay for it. Children are left in daycares, ala the Soviet Union – a failed experiment. Men are robbed of their natural inclinations to provide and protect.
Do not ever think that you speak for all woman, or that abortion is a “right”. No, life is a right, and you will never speak for me as our worldviews are dramatically different.
Thank you Sharen for your comment.
I couldn’t agree more.
The argument that educated people are more likely to support abortion is specious! It is sophistry at its worst….especially given the extent to which our institutions of higher education and media elite are locked into a rut of political correctness which stymies free thinking and imprisons the mind. Just look at the dreadful rise in anti-semitism on our campuses.
But more importantly, the winds of academic fashion change constantly. Those who led and supported the Third Reich were among the most educated minds in the world at that time. They believed sincerely that they were doing what was scientific and logical according to their firm belief in evolution and the need for mankind to eliminate those with disabilities and those of inferior race. It was all sold as high science and academic superiority. But just like abortion, it was pure evil and served to cause untold suffering.
Its time the truth about abortion is told. And we who regard it as morally repugnant should NEVER have to pay for it.
Mel
Not in my name!
5 in our household, not, not in our name either!
Not in my name, nor for anybody in this household!