Judy Rebick is no stranger to the abortion debate.
She is one of those who helped in the fight to provide women with a choice.
Ms. Rebick is seen here fending off an attack on Dr. Morgentaler at the opening of a clinic in Toronto.
Too bad the debaters club doesn’t realize that this sort of thing still happens. It happens to ordinary women making perfectly legitimate choices for themselves and to the doctors who provide needed medical procedures.
In Ms. Rebick’s own words;
Dear Elizabeth,
I would have written sooner but I have been travelling.
Since I got back, I have carefully reviewed your statements on abortion and I have to say that I am sorry but I will no longer be supporting you or the Green Party in any way.
As you know I was very supportive of your running as leader of the Green Party and despite my differences with some of the platform of the Party I have up until now felt that your presence added a great deal to the federal political scene. But now you have questioned the most important victory of the women’s movement of my generation.
If you had said that you personally oppose abortion but you support a woman’s right to choose, I would have been fine with that. Instead you said that a woman’s right to choose, something tens of thousands of Canadian women fought for for decades, was trivializing an important issue. It felt like a slap in the face.
Since you have so little respect for me or for the women’s movement which mobilized for so long to win this hard-earned right, I hope you will understand that I ripped up the cheque I had written to the Green Party and you can no longer rely on me for support.
ETA:Apparently someone at this site either thinks I am anti abortion or that it would be a hoot to send the anti choicers my way. Why do the anti choice crowd make it so easy to question their intelligence?
I’m staying Green but I think May is a twat for her comments… certainly she reflects only a small percentage of Green opinion.
That was a strong, clear message from Judy. I hope all women thinking of supporting the Green Party are made aware of May’s position.
I beg your pardon? A “twat”? Why not say cunt? Or, how about bitch? That’s one the old boys like to throw around.
In other words, please refrain from using parts of a woman’s body in a denigrating fashion, especially to denigrate a woman!
Bravo for Ms. May, Rebick is a foolish old leftist whose tired mantra’s speak only to a remaining few true believers.
Absolutely so.
I mean come one who really believes in woman’s right to choice.
Most of the women I know can’t wait to be told what to do with their bodies by the government, the church, their husbands any other dumb fuck who thinks they should make their decisions for them.
What a silly riposte Avril, Rebick’s tired rhetoric (and yours I may add), coupled with her attempt to stifle debate is a denial of reality and likely proof that in her marrow she knows her beliefs will not stand the light of scrutiny. She is as nuanced as a dinosaur. All life is sacred and Rebick’s assertion that her opponents place the rights of the foetus above the rights of women is asinine.
All life is sacred except that of the pregnant woman. Interesting.
I’m glad you feel so righteous in your indignation, I suppose it gives you something to do with your time.
What does A.L. mean by “her attempt to stifle debate”? Writing an open letter and posting it on a popular website is more likely to promote debate than to stifle it.
Of course, it also draws the kind of insulting nonsense that A.L. writes, but Ms. Rebick has never lacked courage.
My My what a curious circumstance.
‘Twould seem that A.L. posts under many assumed names disparaging the reputation of people who don’t have the luxury of anonymity.
What to do?…what to do?….
Pip pip, tally-ho!