Anti-Choice is Anti-Awesome

From LEAF : > On January 5, 2016, a group of local activists, Abortion Access Now > PEI (AAN PEI), with the support of the Women’s Legal Education and > Action Fund�...

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Finally, the abortion pill is here. After years of bureaucratic hold ups and delays, Health Canada has approved for use in Canada a drug that millions of people have been taking safely in dozen...

http://antichoiceantiawesome.blogspot.com/2015/07/abortion-in-pill-form-future-is-now.html

Hey readers! Sorry as always for my long hiatus. I'm back, baby! I have this book to review but I feel in the interests of full disclosure I need to set it up a little first. When I first sta...

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Still here, still angry. Still too cynical to tell y'all my in depth feelings about recent developments. I am currently reading Olivia Chow's memoirs and the message I am taking away is the sam...

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This week so far has been like a strange dream that I have floated through. The decision out of Ferguson did not surprise me but it stunned me, and ever since I have been detached and numb. It c...

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Do yourself a favour and go read this excellent piece by Leigha Ariana at the Toas t, about how a woman named Norma Ellen Verwey trolled the entire country by proposing mandatory vasectomies to ...

http://antichoiceantiawesome.blogspot.com/2014/10/vasectomies-for-some-miniature-canadian.html

The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC-CDAC) is hosting a National Day of Action this Saturday - come on out if there is an event in your city! If not, I highly recommend you get in touch...

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FYI, Fédération du Québec pour le planning des naissances (FQPN) has produced this new card game(!) called Sex & Health: All about abortion. From the description: > "A very handy tool�...

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On September 20th, ARCC is hosting a National Day of Action on Reproductive Justice, the theme being Equal Access Now! Check out the Facebook event here for details. Something that is often m...

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I know this is kind of old news, but a friend of mine sent me this story and I've been meaning to blog about it for weeks. Future contraceptives will let women remote-control their fertility ...

http://antichoiceantiawesome.blogspot.com/2014/08/contraceptives-of-future.html

Signal boost for the Sea Change Program - if you are a public abortion storyteller (or know someone who is), read on: > Hi Friends,  > I'm writing you to announce an exciting new ...

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Ok so I saw 'Obvious Child ' last night, and I adored it, and I'm not just saying that because it's an "abortion movie". You may have heard a little about this film - I actually remember seei...

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Today it was announced in Fredericton that the Morgentaler Clinic will be shutting its doors after 20 years. From the press release: > The Morgentaler Clinic is closing for the followin...

http://antichoiceantiawesome.blogspot.com/2014/04/if-not-now-then-when.html

A bold group of students from Saint Thomas University in Fredericton have created an online petition that is getting some attention. The aim is to ask/force/demand the government of New Brunsw...

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Wishful thinking? February really does drag on, doesn't it? Anyway, there are two very interesting looking but very different conferences happening in August that you should know about: 1. Abo...

http://antichoiceantiawesome.blogspot.com/2014/02/summer-is-not-so-far-away.html

I know I'm a bit late on this, but I didn't know Dr. Romalis and don't have a lot to say, except to give my sympathies to his family and friends. From the Globe and Mail obituary : > Motivat...

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Ok two things that I've been slow on the uptake about, but really want to signal boost if I can: 1. Colleen MacQuarrie (UPEI) has released her research on how the lack of abortion services on...

http://antichoiceantiawesome.blogspot.com/2014/02/signal-boosting-abortion-access-on-pei.html

It is the 26th anniversary of the Morgentaler decision. As always we should celebrate this milestone, but only for what it is; a milestone, not the journey's end. Just because abortion is legal i...

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So I just read the This Magazine cover story "No Choice: Why the pro-choice movement won't let women grieve after abortion " and...well. I have thoughts. First of all, in the interests of ful...

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So on Tuesday (Oct. 29th) I will be at the NDP Women's Forum in Ottawa. I'm on a panel called "The Politics of Advocacy" (I know, what does that mean?) with some really cool-sounding people, an...

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So, a weird thing happened this weekend. FYI I'm about to talk about my vagina again so just take a rain check on this post if that's not the sort of thing you want to read about. Some friends...

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Maybe it's because I'm on my period (TMI alert, etc. etc. - honestly if you read this blog at all you know a lot more than that about my vagina), but when I read this article about the Centre fo...

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Check out this article on abortion access in Canada on VICE, of all places, with a nifty chart (below)! They're not totally clear on the New Brunswick situation in terms of hospital provision v...

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The Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (ie the charming folks behind the GAP project in Canada, and the recent anti-abortion recruitment at Toronto high schools ) is at it again, this time d...

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Just to let you know, there will be a memorial for Dr. Morgentaler in Toronto this Friday (July 19th). I will be there and I hope to see you all there as well! WHERE: The Great Hall, Hart House...

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