Having an endless stream of photos to edit these days, I often plop my pre-schooler in front of a Disney movie for a stead. (I know; I’m a horrible mother.) Colour adjusting away in my basement office-slash-playroom (see, not such a horrible mother), I get to enjoy those easy-to-follow story lines.
We’re on Pocahontas right now (and renting a different one every week). We just got through a Mulan phase, which was preceded by The Hunchback of Notre Dame . At the risk of being told I too am reminded of the pro-life, pro-choice dialogue everywhere (and I’d be in great company), well, they all remind me of the pro-life, pro-choice dialogue.
Mulan conceals her female identity to fight in the Imperial Chinese army and heads the defeat of the Huns, saving China. When it is discovered that she is infact not a man, she goes from hero to zero. Regardless of her accomplishments, the stigma of being a woman is her greatest obstacle. Just as ‘unwan...
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Open the public debateFrom: prowomanprolife.org
Post Date: 2008-02-11 06:28:56
In an unprecedented move, Dr. Morgentaler’s supporters have decided to catalogue past rejections and spur a public debate about why one of Canada’s iconic figures has never received its highest honour…
reads a Globe article .
Open the debate? That’s something pro-lifers have wanted for years. Sounds good to me . ...
more Obligation to refer: Fact or fiction?From: prowomanprolife.org
Post Date: 2008-02-11 06:23:52
I realize that the democratic state allows citizens to have a hand in the legislative process. But the last time I checked, the course of a legal obligation involved a walk through Parliament and some semblance of a democratic debate. So how did it come to be that:
“Lorraine Weinrib, faculty of law at the University of Toronto, mused about why doctors should be protected from performing or referring for abortions.”
An obligation to refer women seeking abortions to abortion provider...
more Failing to see the forest for the treesFrom: prowomanprolife.org
Post Date: 2008-02-11 06:17:48
A reader, Brian , thought we needed to read this . So I did–most of it, anyway.
There’s a lot of disagreement on how and when abortion causes psychological damage to women. One area of solid agreement is that when the woman herself harbours grave misgivings over the act that woman is indeed more likely to experience personal damage.
So what upsets me about the link above is not that there are hypocrites out there, even pro-life ones–surely we all knew that. What upset...
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