Tag Archives: pro-life isn’t

Antichoicer lies 1

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

A good sign that you’re reading something spun out of whole cloth by a lying misogynist jerk (anti-abortion or MRA varieties) is when you Google the quote they’re waving around and every single site that pops up is an antichoice … Continue reading →

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Antichoicer math

Posted on May 2, 2013 by

Drawn from this press release by Right to Impose Fundamentalist Christian Despotism. Number of times a foetus is referred to as though it exists in a vacuum and not inside and dependent on the body of a living breathing thinking … Continue reading →

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More shitty research on abortion?

Posted on April 20, 2013 by

So new research is out, apparently saying that we shouldn’t allow abortion on the grounds of mental health because abortion doesn’t affect mental health. (They do suggest rewording our current legislation so as to further make it clear that we … Continue reading →

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Antichoicers are terrorists

Posted on April 12, 2013 by

Back in the bad old days of the 1980s, hair was big, makeup was loud, and a Christchurch health clinic was torched while an Auckland clinic was threatened with firebombing. Because the “pro-life” movement couldn’t handle the fact that people … Continue reading →

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The real motives of the anti-abortion movement have nothing to do with life

Posted on January 30, 2013 by

The latest proof of today’s heading comes to us from Daily Kos, which reports: In just the past year, the Church has called upon its faithful followers to march, to starve themselves, to go to jail, to even take up … Continue reading →

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The real war on women is making shit up, volume 2

Posted on January 25, 2013 by

Clearly the anti-choicers have received their talking points, and hot on the heels of FLI’s pack of lies, Right to Life has jumped up to declare we have to “protect” women (his way of saying “pregnant people”). Just think about … Continue reading →

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How to know you’re winning

Posted on December 4, 2012 by

I wasn’t going to post about this because it is just so not done to blow one’s own trumpet, but Bomber in a post at Tumeke has granted me the title of Chaotic Good Blogger of 2012. Which is kinda … Continue reading →

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Banning abortion kills women (sorry, “lets them die”)

Posted on November 19, 2012 by

This is simply the inevitable outcome of “pro-life” thinking:  denying a woman medical treatment because her foetus – a foetus which is going to die anyway – is more important than she is. Because “pro-life” attitudes result in laws which value … Continue reading →

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Southlanders For Embryos protest too much

Posted on October 20, 2012 by

I mean seriously, when you have to issue a press release entirely to say “we met to discuss our options and pinky-sweared each other that we won’t shoot anyone” you may like to consider the company your movement is keeping. … Continue reading →

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Irony in action: antichoice whinge edition

Posted on October 19, 2012 by

Within 24 hours of appearing on Close Up, Alison McCulloch of ALRANZ received a threatening email directed at her and the Southland abortion clinic. ProLife New Zealand decided this was a great opportunity to stage an online performance art piece … Continue reading →

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