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

[Joanna Chiu]

Hey, these are the recommendations from Joyce Arthur, director of ARCC:

Hi Joanna, if you can slog through ARCC’s Facebook page, everything’s been
posted there: http://www.facebook.com/AbortionRights****

Check out the article a few days ago from Mercedes Allen,
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/mercedes-allen/2012/09/stephen-woodworths-science-and-why-canadas-far-right-isnt-terr#.UFk7hJbhfwh
There’s some others there too, sorry I don’t have time to go through
and
pick out the best ones for you!****

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Thanks for the wonderful  piece in Herizons!! J  I really like how you
portrayed the strength of the pro-choice movement. (nice antidote to this
crap from the other day
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/canada/Public+support+little+parliamentary+backing+motion+rights+fetus+says/7255368/story.html
)****

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Cheers,****

Joyce ****

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*From:* Joanna Chiu [mailto:chiu.joanna5 at gmail.com]
*Sent:* Thursday, September 20, 2012 3:08 AM
*To:* wamvan
*Cc:* Joyce Arthur
*Subject:* Blogs/articles on anti-abortion bill Motion 312?****

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Hi all, ****

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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. ****

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

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

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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 ****

www.joannachiu.com <http://www.joannachiu.com%20/>
twitter.com/joannachiu
Ph: 5115 8253 ****

WAM! Vancouver <http://www.wamvancouver.wordpress.com%20/>




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