Speak your mind even if your voice shakes
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the right to reproductive liberty.
Abortion is not about a culture of death, it is not about hating children or being sinners. It is about controlling ones health, ones life, ones future.
There is a mistaken belief that if abortion were completely outlawed no more abortions would ever be preformed. This of course is ridiculous nonsense. Women have always practised birth control and abortion. And would continue to do so. [Read more…] about Celebrate Choice
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http://www.acreativerevolution.ca/node/584/
Today Americians who believe in freedom and democracy celebrate the day that women were given a right to reproductive liberty.
At a time when so much talk centres around bringing democracy, freedom, women’s rights, to other countries, it is ironic that those things are being scaled back in America itself.
{The death of habeas corpus
Wire Tapping
limiting abortion rights
Indifference to equal pay just a small sampling}
The vocal minorities and special interest groups have organized while decent people just assumed that what was obviously right would continue. Unfortunately the courts and various places of political representation are now stacked with those who would have America become a theocracy. Whose idea of reproductive choice is whether to do it with the lights off or on. And who would happily revert to days when scores of women were on drugs in order to cope with the drudgery and danger which was their lives.
The slanderous sexist and misogynist comments around Hilary Clintons’ campaign is a glaring example of low esteem in which these right-wing, anti-choice, anti-democratic types hold women. It may be amusing for those women in the anti-choice to see their political foes treated thusly, however, they need to bear in mind that these men think pretty much the same way about them.
It is time to fight back. It is time to remember the women who died because they had no choice, because a piece of flesh within her was considered more important than her life. A time when constant pregnancy made women weak and many succumbed to death from hemorrhage.
The step family is not a new invention, men remarried, families blended, this is not an invention of feminism as the misinformed would like to believe.
Birth control is also under attack. There will be no peace until women have lost all the rights so long fought for. It may start with glurgy soft focus pictures of pregnancy and newborns, but it will end only when the jackboot of patriarchy is once again firmly lodged on the throats of women everywhere.
It is your body, your choice, your life, your future. Defend it!
Hey all you ball breaking, castrating, impolite, uncivil, vitriol dripping, hairylegged, humourless, radical feminists out there. Have you ever wondered where the awards for all the hard work nastiness you put out there are?
Well look no further! The CFB is the answer to your question.
“Nominations graciously accepted from January 25 to February 8”
What is up with the feminist baby eaters? Why are they so cranky? Must be “that” time of the month.
Let me try and explain it in small easily digestible pieces. This isn’t about making friends, or appealing to those who are fucking clueless about lifes realities. This is about fighting against a belief that things were better when men were men, sheep were nervous and women had no control over the number of babies they had and were denied abortions even to save their lives.
This is about dealing with those who post comments in support of women dying and doctors being killed on ones blog. I usually just delete them. But maybe it’s time we let the sunshine under the rocks so the gatekeepers of civility can grab a fucking clue. [Read more…] about Be nice when someone Spitz on you
Every year it breaks my heart to watch as 14 roses pile up in remembrance of the horror of December 6, 1989.
In the face of such an atrocity one can only hope that lessons will be learned. Unfortunately, it seems that few have paid attention.
Women are still being killed simply for being women, for asserting their rights, or simply for being there. Women’s shelters are still full and daily women face abuses and the possibility of death.
It is often difficult, especially in light of such tragedies, to make those privileged enough not to have to deal with the daily issues see how ‘small’ things contribute to the larger picture.
When you allow words as weapons (calling women cunts, throw like a girl, etc), when you excuse sexist behaviour, when you smear an MP because she calls someone on an act that would not be allowed in any other workplace, when commercials that talk about how “boys are just built different” no icky girls allowed, when these things passed unremarked the message that girls are somehow ‘less than’ is ingrained.
The women cut down in the act of terror committed that day deserve better.
Lest we forget
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