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[magedragonfire]

Harper's Conservative back-benchers are clamouring again to erode the rights of women.

Said backbencher is, clearly, an ignorant prick. Of course children should have - and do, if I recall correctly - human rights. Embryos are not children.

For once, the comments on the article there - or at least, the highest-rated ones - are not completely stupid. The very top-rated one even addresses how these male MPs should be keeping thier noses firmly out of it. I was kind of tickled to see that, even if the subject matter makes my blood boil.

Fuck this government, seriously.

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[anrui-ichido.livejournal.com]

Ughhh, didn't he promise this issue wasn't going to come up if he got a majority? >:| Ffffff.

Personally, I think an embryo is a life, but a woman isn't morally obligated to give up HER rights over her own body in order for it to live unless she wants to. An embryo is not entitled to a woman's body any more than any other life out there.

[bastets-place.livejournal.com]

I have to wonder, though, how much real control Harper has over "back bench" people. The article suggests that he could easily prevent any such press conference/release from happening, if he wanted to. I know that Canada has a lot of pretty different laws from the US, but you still have SOMETHING like freedom of speech and press, right?