Comments on: Speaking as member of that left-wing fringe group called women http://lastexiled.com/index.php/2010/05/05/speaking-as-member-of-that-left-wing-fringe-group-called-women/ residence-in-exile of The Last Amazon Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:19:04 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Kateland http://lastexiled.com/index.php/2010/05/05/speaking-as-member-of-that-left-wing-fringe-group-called-women/comment-page-1/#comment-3997 Kateland Thu, 06 May 2010 09:11:23 +0000 http://lastexiled.com/?p=4666#comment-3997 Nancy, as much as I would like to accept your praise I should tell you Canada isn't the paragon of virtue either. The title of my post came from a off-the- cuff remark our PM made to describe women in this country in a talk to his party faithful. While there are no laws governing abortion (owing to the Supreme Court striking down the law which governed abortion - the lack of law has more to do with the Cdn government's inability to establish a consensus on the kind of law which is needed). Right up until our current government we were all happy (that is except for the contingent who believe they have the right to enforce their values on other women's bodies) with the 'no law' status. Our current Prime Minister insists he has no desire to 're-open' the abortion debate and yet the issue keeps coming up from his so-con MP base. Access to abortion is rather spotty as availability is left up to the hospitals or doctors to decide. In some provinces, abortion is non-existent and women are forced to make the trek out of province to get one. What I don't want to see is any law attempt to regulate or control the reproductive choices or options a woman makes. A woman should be master over her body and even if this means she uses 'abortion' as a form of birth control the state has no right to dictate what she does with her body. Frankly, any woman who uses abortion as a viable birth control method is not who I would suggest is prime mother material. Where the pro-choice fraction breaks down is on how pays for the abortion - government funding or the individual. Overall, Cdns were generally centrists who use to prefer compromise <del datetime="2010-05-06T19:41:47+00:00">or </del> to conflict. I am not so sure anymore. Nancy, as much as I would like to accept your praise I should tell you Canada isn’t the paragon of virtue either. The title of my post came from a off-the- cuff remark our PM made to describe women in this country in a talk to his party faithful. While there are no laws governing abortion (owing to the Supreme Court striking down the law which governed abortion – the lack of law has more to do with the Cdn government’s inability to establish a consensus on the kind of law which is needed). Right up until our current government we were all happy (that is except for the contingent who believe they have the right to enforce their values on other women’s bodies) with the ‘no law’ status. Our current Prime Minister insists he has no desire to ‘re-open’ the abortion debate and yet the issue keeps coming up from his so-con MP base. Access to abortion is rather spotty as availability is left up to the hospitals or doctors to decide. In some provinces, abortion is non-existent and women are forced to make the trek out of province to get one.

What I don’t want to see is any law attempt to regulate or control the reproductive choices or options a woman makes. A woman should be master over her body and even if this means she uses ‘abortion’ as a form of birth control the state has no right to dictate what she does with her body. Frankly, any woman who uses abortion as a viable birth control method is not who I would suggest is prime mother material. Where the pro-choice fraction breaks down is on how pays for the abortion – government funding or the individual.

Overall, Cdns were generally centrists who use to prefer compromise or to conflict. I am not so sure anymore.

]]> By: Nancy Ewart http://lastexiled.com/index.php/2010/05/05/speaking-as-member-of-that-left-wing-fringe-group-called-women/comment-page-1/#comment-3996 Nancy Ewart Thu, 06 May 2010 04:53:51 +0000 http://lastexiled.com/?p=4666#comment-3996 You are so lucky to have such a civilized policy in Canada. Here, in the US, the policy changes from state to state and those who need abortion the most often do not have access to it. I've always wondered why it's considered acceptable for those in power to dictate to the poorest, the most desperate and those with the most to lose. That goes double or triple for the 3rd world! I read somewhere that past US administrations cut funding to any overseas clinic that gave out contraceptives. I hope that's wrong because condemning women to have babies until they drop dead or watch their children die of famine is the height of cruelty. ps - thanks for letting me comment so much. You know - or rather I should assure you, that I am a very civilized and polite poster and would never put anything rude or crude on your blog. There may be, in fact, I am certain that there will be times that we disagree but I have never used that as an excuse to be nasty or rude on the Internet. I just go into the back room, stomp up and down and indulge my inner child in a temper tantrum! Because when I'm right, I'm RIGHT! I just don't know why the whole world doesn't understand this :-) You are so lucky to have such a civilized policy in Canada. Here, in the US, the policy changes from state to state and those who need abortion the most often do not have access to it. I’ve always wondered why it’s considered acceptable for those in power to dictate to the poorest, the most desperate and those with the most to lose. That goes double or triple for the 3rd world! I read somewhere that past US administrations cut funding to any overseas clinic that gave out contraceptives. I hope that’s wrong because condemning women to have babies until they drop dead or watch their children die of famine is the height of cruelty.
ps – thanks for letting me comment so much. You know – or rather I should assure you, that I am a very civilized and polite poster and would never put anything rude or crude on your blog. There may be, in fact, I am certain that there will be times that we disagree but I have never used that as an excuse to be nasty or rude on the Internet.
I just go into the back room, stomp up and down and indulge my inner child in a temper tantrum! Because when I’m right, I’m RIGHT! I just don’t know why the whole world doesn’t understand this :-)

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