cross-posted on rabble.ca For many students at universities and those involved in the reproductive justice movement, it is no surprise that Canadian campuses have become hotbeds for anti-choice activities in recent years. Unfortunately, the organizing efforts of pro-choice students and youth are too often rooted in reacting to the antics of abortion shaming on the … Continue reading
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Event Report: ‘Positively Pro-Choice’ at SFU
How do you foster meaningful dialogue with a group that specifically attempts to engage student body members in didactic conversations aimed at guilting and shocking people into anti-choice thought, where they preach and you nod? Quite simply, you don’t. You create your own safe space where you can have actual conversations that raise new points, … Continue reading
Anti-choicers strike: Students and youth respond
Anti-choice activity seems to have been springing up at Canadian schools and campuses from coast to coast in recent months. Pro-choice students and youth, however, have responded passionately and strategically. Earlier this year in May, at the University of Ottawa, Medical Students for Choice (MSFC) came under fire when the Faculty of Medicine and the Medical Students’ Society decided … Continue reading
“Echoes of the Holocaust” and the defamation of lived genocide
Originally posted on October 19, 2010 at Students for Reproductive Justice Beginning with the 2010 school year, the University of Victoria’s Student Society (UVSS) decided to re-instate the previously revoked club status and funding of UVic’s anti- choice club, Youth Protecting Youth (YPY). Within a matter of weeks, YPY announced they were hosting Jose Ruba and … Continue reading
The Inherent Misogyny of the Abortion-as-Genocide Argument
Originally posted on October 27, 2010 at SRRUBC Today, Jojo Ruba of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform will be giving a lecture entitled “Echoes of the Holocaust: comparing abortion to other human rights violations”. The Centre for Bioethical Reform is the group that sponsors the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) display–a display that depicts images of … Continue reading
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