[Wamvan] Blogs/articles on anti-abortion bill Motion 312?

[Joanna Chiu]

Hi all,

Has anyone written on the recent attacks on reproductive rights in Canada
or would recommend some good articles or blogs on the subject? I'd like to
collect a list of feminist critiques of those attacks to share around.

Here's my column on Motion 312 in Herizons magazine's summer issue:
http://joannachiu.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/choice-under-attack/

Here's a petition: http://www.leadnow.ca/defend-our-reproductive-rights

And the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada provides updates and letter
templates on its website here: http://www.arcc-cdac.ca/m312.html

Some context pasted from ARCC:

** The second hour of debate on M312 is scheduled for Sept 21 (1:30pm EDT),
and the vote for Sept 26 (5pm EDT)**
Dear Supporters,

A dangerous anti-abortion motion was debated in Parliament in April and is
coming up for a second round of debate on Sept 21 and a vote on Sept 26.
Motion 312 (see full
wording<http://www.stephenwoodworth.ca/canadas-400-year-old-definition-of-human-being/motion-312>
 on Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth's website) calls for a Parliamentary
Committee to examine whether the Criminal Code definition of "human being"
should be expanded to include fetuses. This threatens to give legal
personhood to fetuses and allow the re-criminalization of abortion, as well
as deny the constitutional rights of all pregnant women.

Although the motion is not expected to pass, we must send a strong message
to Parliament and anti-choice MPs that we will never let anyone take us
back to the 1950’s on hard-fought reproductive rights for Canadian
women. Please
take action today to ensure a crushing defeat for Motion 312 in June.

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 Joanna Chiu
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twitter.com/joannachiu
Ph: 5115 8253
WAM! Vancouver <http://www.wamvancouver.wordpress.com%20/>
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