Fetus Fetishist Watch

[lagatta]

Cripes, half the Maritimes are working at Ft McMurray. An Acadian friend from NB here has several family members doing that. They are living in bunkers or little flats shared with other guys - and the families want to keep their own homes.

I said Maritimes, but should revise that to Atlantic (including Newfoundland and Labrador) and Eastern Québec.

Here is more on this ghastly story: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/04/27/pregnant-guinean-faces-deportation.html  You can find plenty more in French, googling Sayon Camara. I have a rush translation to do, so can't add any more now.

[lagatta]

A spot of good news. Update on the CBC report:

"A pregnant woman in Montreal who was supposed to be deported to Guinea has received an emergency stay of deportation until she gives birth.

The news came just minutes before Sayon Camara was scheduled to fly out of Trudeau airport at 2 p.m. Tuesday.

Her lawyer, Stewart Istvanffy, was successful in a last minute appeal to the Federal Court.

Forty-two-year-old Camara is six months pregnant. She has Type 2 diabetes and has already miscarried once.

Camara's husband, Abdul Sow, told reporters at the airport that he would not allow his wife to leave the country unless her safety could be assured.

Sow smiled as he described his feelings upon hearing that his wife would not be getting on a plane that day.

"It's a great relief to my wife and I, especially with the baby that will be born," he said".

[Holly Stick]

So I was slumming at the Notional Pest and saw this column by Lorne Gunter about how the debate on abortion is not settled, blah, blah, blah:
 
http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/05/05/the-debate-on-abortion-is-quot-settled-quot-just-like-the-debate-on-global-warming-gun-control-punishment-v-rehab-multiculturalism.aspx
 
and he recommended this website, which I don't know if anyone here has seen, "Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform" by Stephanie Gray:
 
http://unmaskingchoice.ca/gray.html
 
ETA: based on the horrible photos, I guess she is involved with the bunch who were kicked off the University of Calgary campus

[skdadl]

Holly Stick, your first link takes me to Wherry's -- brilliant, I must say -- column about shutting the F--- up, for which thanks, but not to Gunter -- and maybe thanks for that too.

[Holly Stick]

Oops, I changed the link to Gunter above (sorry ) and moved Wherry to here:
 
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/05/04/the-commons-your-deferential-silence-is-appreciated/#idc-cover

[Toedancer]

http://www.rightoncanada.ca/?p=796

Mr. Harper: Stop playing politics with women's lives.

[Holly Stick]

About releasing abortion statistics in BC - Campaign Life wants the information:
 
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/05/13/bc-right-to-life-abortion-statistics.html

[Toedancer]

They said they didn't want 'it' to become an election issue. but Liberal Paul Szabo says - “We will be back to reconsidering the question in the House . . . We’re taking incremental steps, small steps. It’s just a question of knowing when it’s the right time.”

“He says he doesn’t want to legislate, but I think that’s just doublespeak,” says Arthur.     Anita Neville, Winnipeg MP and Liberal women’s critic, says “everything is through the back door. Moreover, she says “discussions around the G8 have galvanized debate. I was on the Hill (for Thursday’s anti-abortion protest) . . . and it’s clear they’re becoming emboldened.”

Emboldened is a verb, yes?



http://murraydobbin.ca/  I had to add Dobbin's opinion on the detainee issue compromise, cuz I'm lazy right now. It's all the Liberals Fault!

The final result is a precedent that puts the judgment of MPs in their own House of Commons, second to so-called experts. What experts? And who will define national security? The “experts” or Parliament? The whole question revolves around this definition and yet we have heard virtually nothing about what it might mean.

It will be the Liberals fault if abortion is back as well. Can u imagine if they were 'emboldened'? Oy vey.

P.S. Some people should really floor-cross and be done with it. There should be a day, once a year, when all MP's get to switch sides, physically do the walk during QP, no repercussions, so that the members of each party are actually in their proper place. Assholery Liberals.

[Holly Stick]

More arguments about abortion at Macleans:
 
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/05/17/what-were-not-talking-about/

[k'in]

Joseph Dioguardi

This is the Republican Senate nominee for New York (not South Dakota) - Hillary Clinton's vacated seat.

Heard his radio ad yesterday on a NY station - 100% of the ad was "I am a fetus fetishist".

He isn't going to win (or even come close) Monday night.  Still, it's disturbing that he is on the ballot.

[Alison]

I don't bother noting it here anymore as its occurrence is so frequent, but last Wednesday Lib MPs Dan McTeague and Alan Tonks and the Con Sweet all presented petitions in the House for :

protection of human life from the time of conception until natural death.
 

It is their job to present petitions of course but somehow it's always the same guys.

[skdadl]

Well, I like the "until natural death" part. Presumably this means they are opposed to capital punishment?

[lagatta]

Nope, it means they are opposed to Francine Lalonde's Death with Dignity bill. They want people to suffer from cradle to grave, and women to be condemned to unwanted pregnancies and birth in pain.

[Alison]

Ah now I see why there was an uptick in the conception-to-death fetish petitions in the House last week. Bruinooge is holding the first hour of debate on Bill C-510, his abortion coersion bill, this morning prior to its Second Reading. 

[Antonia]

Where's his bill against the coercion of pregnancy????